{"id":350902,"date":"2026-03-27T17:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350902\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:17:13","slug":"whangarei-alleged-police-assault-pepper-spray-used-2-men-face-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350902\/","title":{"rendered":"Whang\u0101rei alleged police assault: Pepper spray used, 2 men face charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Smith said a 37-year-old man was charged with assaulting police and resisting police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">He was due to appear in Whang\u0101rei District Court on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA 32-year-old man was charged with behaving threateningly and resisting police and will undertake an alternative resolution,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Brodie Stone covers crime and emergency for the Northern Advocate. She has spent most of her life in Whang\u0101rei and is passionate about delving into issues that matter to Northlanders and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith said a 37-year-old man was charged with assaulting police and resisting police. He was due to appear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1554,7818,13916,17704,1873,19555,1872,209,52208,12514,3605,111,43,139,69,384,3751,675,75859,83799,8229,19054,13797,3608,1869,1316,11587],"class_list":["post-350902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alleged","tag-allegedly","tag-asked","tag-assault","tag-charges","tag-evening","tag-face","tag-group","tag-intoxicated","tag-leave","tag-men","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-pepper","tag-police","tag-premises","tag-spray","tag-they","tag-turned","tag-used","tag-were","tag-whangrei","tag-when","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350902","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=350902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}