{"id":354936,"date":"2026-03-30T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354936\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:04:09","slug":"man-in-custody-after-large-police-presence-reported-in-dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354936\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in custody after large police presence reported in Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/zeb-tupai\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Zeb Tupa&#8217;i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>30 Mar, 2026 06:40 AMQuick 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\">A large police presence was reported in Dunedin. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man has been taken into custody after an incident in an inner-city Dunedin suburb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said they were called to Helensburgh St in Wakari about 6pm today after reports of a man behaving erratically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A witness told RNZ they saw nine police cars at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Officers cordoned off<br \/>\n         a neighbouring house while they spoke with the man, whom they took into custody about 7.25pm, police said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zeb Tupa&#8217;i Multimedia Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 30 Mar, 2026 06:40 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1558,11928,6788,78,671,15902,296,3242,5158,111,43,139,69,675,4494,15267,17294,19554],"class_list":["post-354936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-been","tag-custody","tag-dunedin","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-innercity","tag-into","tag-large","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-presence","tag-reported","tag-suburb","tag-taken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354936","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=354936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}