{"id":3121,"date":"2025-09-05T05:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/3121\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:54:04","slug":"christchurch-gang-pad-targeted-with-flammable-projectiles-police-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/3121\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch gang pad targeted with flammable projectiles, police respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>5 Sep, 2025 03:20 AMQuick 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 have increased their presence around Christchurch after this morning&#8217;s attempted arson in Cuffs Rd. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have advised of an increased presence around Christchurch after an \u201cunsuccessful attempt to start a fire\u201d at a gang pad this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cFlammable projectiles\u201d were allegedly thrown at the fence of the Cuffs Rd property about 7.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said the fence did not catch fire and there was \u201cminimal<br \/>\n         damage\u201d.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Inspector Craig Scott said police would not stand by as gangs created chaos in communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhile this morning\u2019s incident didn\u2019t result in any significant harm, the violent actions of gangs cause real unease, particularly for any witnesses or those living nearby.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 5 Sep, 2025 03:20 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4492,74,665,4496,4487,2079,4489,1328,305,4493,1304,111,43,139,69,4488,675,4494,4490,4491,4497,1458,1961,4495,102],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-advised","tag-after","tag-around","tag-attempt","tag-christchurch","tag-fire","tag-flammable","tag-gang","tag-have","tag-increased","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pad","tag-police","tag-presence","tag-projectiles","tag-respond","tag-start","tag-targeted","tag-this","tag-unsuccessful","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","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=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}