{"id":361104,"date":"2026-04-03T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361104\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:31:08","slug":"wellington-armed-police-respond-to-petone-incident-three-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361104\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington armed police respond to Petone incident, three arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier, police asked the public to  avoid East St as officers responded to the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The area had been cordoned off, with road closures in place from East St to Waione St. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">A person in a nearby business said the police were concentrated around an East St property, and the house behind it on Waione St. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">He told the Herald there were \u201ca lot\u201d of officers and  about 12 police vehicles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Officers were in standard uniform and tactical gear. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Police thanked the public for their patience, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice would like to reassure the community that there appears to be no further concerns, and officers will remain present around the area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, police asked the public to avoid East St as officers responded to the incident. The area had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7814,11924,11928,15226,49947,671,2513,111,43,139,69,384,49948,675,17398,4491,190179,17294,1529,61,52],"class_list":["post-361104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-armed","tag-arrested","tag-custody","tag-firearm","tag-hutt","tag-incident","tag-lower","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-petone","tag-police","tag-possible","tag-respond","tag-sighted","tag-suburb","tag-three","tag-to","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361104","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=361104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}