{"id":338508,"date":"2026-03-20T03:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338508\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:33:08","slug":"former-international-sports-star-charged-with-obstructing-police-after-homegrown-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338508\/","title":{"rendered":"Former international sports star charged with obstructing police after Homegrown festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The man did not appear and was granted interim name suppression.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The man allegedly tried to interfere with police as they dealt with a matter after Homegrown in Hamilton. Photo \/ Rakhal Heijtel\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The man allegedly tried to interfere with police as they dealt with a matter after Homegrown in Hamilton. Photo \/ Rakhal Heijtel<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">He was remanded on the charge of intentionally obstructing a police constable acting in the execution of his duty and will appear in court next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The charge he faces carries a maximum penalty of three months\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/public-interest-open-justice\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/public-interest-open-justice\/\">imprisonment<\/a> and a $2000 fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, a police spokesperson said they were \u201cpleased to report\u201d there were no major issues at the music festival over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCrowds were well behaved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Homegrown drew in around 25,000 people who flocked to hear the likes of Six60, Blindspott, The Datsuns and Dragon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Belinda Feek is an Open Justice reporter based in Waikato. She has worked at NZME for 11 years and has been a journalist for 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man did not appear and was granted interim name suppression. The man allegedly tried to interfere with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1554,1558,13239,6384,5131,5504,2740,42,50246,1019,157,43,110259,675,213,2737,40,38,41,39,102],"class_list":["post-338508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-been","tag-charged","tag-confrontation","tag-festival","tag-following","tag-former","tag-headlines","tag-homegrown","tag-international","tag-music","tag-news","tag-obstructing","tag-police","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338508","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=338508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}