{"id":31258,"date":"2025-09-19T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31258\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:50:08","slug":"southland-gang-members-sentenced-over-shootings-and-violent-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31258\/","title":{"rendered":"Southland gang members sentenced over shootings and violent assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe sentencing of all six offenders sends a clear message to organised crime groups that behaviour like this will not be tolerated in our community,\u201d said Area Commander Southland Inspector Mike Bowman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThose who choose to offend in this way, causing this type of harm, can expect to be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Police also said that Operation Pakari has contributed to a decline in offences since June 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe operation is a great piece of work that\u2019s happened in the Southland policing area,\u201d said Inspector Bowman, \u201cwhich has seen a 17% reduction in overall offences since June 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe sentencing of all six offenders sends a clear message to organised crime groups that behaviour like this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6450,95,13119,1558,1328,305,4754,111,43,139,69,30083,17286,1523,675,12229,5161,13109,28359,15488,20424],"class_list":["post-31258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-6450","tag-and","tag-assaults","tag-been","tag-gang","tag-have","tag-members","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offences","tag-operation","tag-over","tag-police","tag-result","tag-sentenced","tag-several","tag-shootings","tag-southland","tag-violent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31258","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=31258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}