{"id":356530,"date":"2026-03-31T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356530\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:29:09","slug":"man-charged-after-footage-allegedly-shows-puppies-being-thrown-into-whakatane-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356530\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after footage allegedly shows puppies being thrown into Whakat\u0101ne River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Senior Sergeant Cam MacKinnon said a 19-year-old man had been charged with cruelty to animals, while a 17-year-old had been referred to Youth Aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">He said wilful ill-treatment towards animals is \u201cunacceptable in any form\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe will robustly work to hold offenders to account for their actions. This includes restrictions on bail during court proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">The videos were shared to the Facebook group Animal abusers exposed NZ. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Hundreds of comments on the multiple posts strongly condemned the men\u2019s actions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">SPCA regional manager Jason Blair said the footage was \u201cdistressing and concerning\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs this is a police matter, we are available to assist them with any inquiries and cannot comment further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">If anyone else has information regarding this incident, it can be provided online at 105.police.govt.nz, click \u201cUpdate Report\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Please quote police event number P065921794.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Sergeant Cam MacKinnon said a 19-year-old man had been charged with cruelty to animals, while a 17-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33914,74,7818,1558,682,13239,19473,296,12898,5158,111,43,139,69,675,43237,6739,5348,418,8214,25447,2240],"class_list":["post-356530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-19yearold","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-been","tag-being","tag-charged","tag-footage","tag-into","tag-investigation","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-puppies","tag-river","tag-showing","tag-shows","tag-sparked","tag-thrown","tag-whakatne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356530","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=356530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}