{"id":356098,"date":"2026-03-31T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356098\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:54:09","slug":"broadcaster-duncan-garner-charged-with-driving-while-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356098\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcaster Duncan Garner charged with driving while suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JQWT45_DUNCAN_3_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1312\" alt=\"Duncan Garner at the 2018 Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards at the Civic Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand on November 22, 2018. (Photo by Michael Bradley\/Getty Images for NZTV Awards)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nDuncan Garner, pictured in 2018, was due to appear in the Auckland District Court on Tuesday.<br \/>\nPhoto: Michael Bradley\/Getty Images for NZTV Awards\n<\/p>\n<p>Broadcaster Duncan Garner has been charged with driving a car while his licence was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Garner, who hosts the Editor in Chief podcast, was due to appear in the Auckland District Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A registrar told RNZ the 52-year-old&#8217;s appearance had been adjourned to 14 April for disclosure and plea.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ has approached Garner and his lawyer for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The registrar said no suppression orders had been requested.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents seen by RNZ allege Garner drove a car in Auckland on 10 March while his licence was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>The charge carries a maximum penalty of three months&#8217; imprisonment and a $4500 fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duncan Garner, pictured in 2018, was due to appear in the Auckland District Court on Tuesday. Photo: Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-356098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356098","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=356098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}