{"id":310159,"date":"2026-03-03T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310159\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:53:08","slug":"waikato-police-incident-man-appears-in-court-after-incident-in-parawera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310159\/","title":{"rendered":"Waikato police incident: Man appears in court after incident in Parawera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waikato Herald<\/p>\n<p>2 Mar, 2026 09:26 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police were called just before 12.50pm yesterday. Photo \/ Glenn Taylor<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man arrested after a family harm incident in Waikato is due to appear in court today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to Mellsop Rd, Parawera, between Arapuni and Kihikihi, just before 12.50pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cordons were in place near Arapuni Rd and the public was asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Armed police,<br \/>\n         including the Armed Offenders Squad, as well as the Police Negotiation Team, helped bring the incident to a safe conclusion, police said in a statement today.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">Cordons were lifted, and the road was opened  shortly after 6pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waikato Herald 2 Mar, 2026 09:26 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,12642,16425,11924,1349,2109,11521,78,671,5158,111,43,139,69,168636,675,1865,1524],"class_list":{"0":"post-310159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-appear","10":"tag-appears","11":"tag-arrested","12":"tag-court","13":"tag-family","14":"tag-harm","15":"tag-in","16":"tag-incident","17":"tag-man","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-parawera","23":"tag-police","24":"tag-today","25":"tag-waikato"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}