{"id":370731,"date":"2026-04-09T06:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370731\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:09:15","slug":"person-allegedly-enters-whanganui-property-with-firearm-sparks-armed-police-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370731\/","title":{"rendered":"Person allegedly enters Whanganui property with firearm, sparks armed police response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6345565a-0d43-4f14-9b07-692939be557b.png\" alt=\" Fin  Ocheduszko Brown\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/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\">Armed police responded to the report. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person with a firearm allegedly entered a Whanganui property yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police responded to a report of an armed person entering a property on Heads Rd, Castlecliff, about 3pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The property\u2019s only occupant was able to get to safety and has no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Senior Sergeant Malcolm Collins<br \/>\n         said police found \u201cnothing of note\u201d at the address.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCordons were in place and armed staff were in attendance as a precaution,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7818,7814,34464,28167,15226,111,43,139,69,4056,675,814,5034,8207,1883,102,11587],"class_list":{"0":"post-370731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-allegedly","9":"tag-armed","10":"tag-entered","11":"tag-enters","12":"tag-firearm","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-person","18":"tag-police","19":"tag-property","20":"tag-response","21":"tag-sparks","22":"tag-whanganui","23":"tag-with","24":"tag-yesterday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370731","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=370731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}