{"id":322931,"date":"2026-03-10T19:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322931\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:37:19","slug":"teen-allegedly-spat-in-officers-face-during-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322931\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen allegedly spat in officer&#8217;s face during arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dunedin teenager allegedly spat in the face of a police officer after being caught red-handed breaking into a car.<\/p>\n<p>The trio of teens, two aged 17 and one aged 14-years-old, attracted police attention after a car was interfered with in Selwyn St, North East Valley yesterday, Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin, said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the incident at 10.30am.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, they witnessed three teenagers rummaging through a Toyota Aqua after they had smashed a window. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All three teens were arrested and charged with unlawful interference with a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The spitting teen was also charged with assault.<\/p>\n<p>They will appear in Dunedin Youth Court this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Gemma Sinclair\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dunedin teenager allegedly spat in the face of a police officer after being caught red-handed breaking into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-322931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/322931","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=322931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}