{"id":314035,"date":"2026-03-05T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314035\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:25:10","slug":"man-arrested-over-alleged-cowardly-attack-after-noisy-burnouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314035\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over alleged ‘cowardly attack’ after noisy burnouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have arrested a 24-year-old patched Black Power member over an alleged serious assault which took place over the weekend in Waikato.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, 1News reported two people had been injured in what police called a “cowardly attack”<\/a>, after the pair attempted to confront occupants of a vehicle doing noisy burnouts in M\u0101tangi on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The pair tried to speak to the occupants of the dark-coloured Ford Falcon at about 8pm on Marychurch Rd when three occupants got out and assaulted them.<\/p>\n

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A dark-coloured Ford Falcon doing burnouts in Waikato’s M\u0101tangi. (Source: NZ Police) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

They were taken to hospital in what was described as moderate condition.<\/p>\n

Today, Inspector Andrea McBeth said this type of behaviour “will not be tolerated”.<\/p>\n

“We understand the frustration of residents where we are seeing anti-social road user behaviour, and for these people to go one step further and attack people trying to speak with them, is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

“We are extremely lucky that we are not dealing with more serious consequences here. There is zero tolerance for this violent offending.”<\/p>\n

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Three people sought following an assault in Waikato’s M\u0101tangi. (Source: NZ Police) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

McBeth said further arrests were likely, and police were continuing to investigate the attack.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old is due to appear in the Hamilton District Court tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested a 24-year-old patched Black Power member over an alleged serious assault which took place over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-314035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314035","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=314035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}