{"id":33837,"date":"2025-09-20T21:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/33837\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:15:06","slug":"man-charged-after-laser-pointed-at-planes-near-wellington-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/33837\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after laser pointed at planes near Wellington Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>20 Sep, 2025 07:52 PMQuick 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\">Air Traffic Control at Wellington Airport reported that two planes had been targeted by a laser. Photo \/ file<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man is before the courts after a laser was pointed at two commercial aircraft in Wellington on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Around 6.45pm, police were alerted by Air Traffic Control that a plane preparing to land at Wellington Airport had been targeted by a laser. Five minutes later, a second plane<br \/>\n         reported the same.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">The laser appeared to come from Stokes Valley. An officer already in the area responded and, within 10 minutes, located a man with a laser. He was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">An officer already in Stokes Valley on unrelated matters was able to respond, and within 10 minutes, the man was located with a laser and taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Police say pointing a laser at any aircraft is extremely dangerous and warn that offenders will be held to account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 20 Sep, 2025 07:52 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,31844,2681,1975,9218,13239,3088,10632,3926,5158,3180,111,43,139,69,31843,31842,1534,52],"class_list":["post-33837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aircraft","tag-airport","tag-at","tag-before","tag-charged","tag-commercial","tag-courts","tag-laser","tag-man","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-planes","tag-pointed","tag-saturday","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33837","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=33837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}