{"id":327649,"date":"2026-03-13T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/327649\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:53:15","slug":"groper-grabbed-and-squeezed-young-woman-on-dunedin-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/327649\/","title":{"rendered":"Groper &#8216;grabbed and squeezed\u2019 young woman on Dunedin street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/clydest.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"The incident happened on Clyde St. Photo: Google Maps\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Clyde St. Photo: Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>A Dunedin man has been charged with indecent assault after he allegedly groped a young woman on a north Dunedin street.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old victim was walking down Clyde St with her 20-year-old boyfriend at 2am this morning when the man, walking the opposite direction, turned around and \u2018\u2018grabbed and squeezed\u2019\u2019 her buttock, Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin said.<\/p>\n<p>The assailant carried on walking in the opposite direction, and the woman\u2019s boyfriend then called emergency services and followed him.<\/p>\n<p>Officers quickly found the 46-year-old man and arrested him.<\/p>\n<p>He would appear in Dunedin District Court charged with indecently assaulting a female at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/mailto:laine.priestley@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident happened on Clyde St. Photo: Google Maps A Dunedin man has been charged with indecent assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-327649","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\/327649","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=327649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}