{"id":44321,"date":"2025-09-26T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44321\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:25:10","slug":"police-hunt-knife-wielding-man-fleeing-hamilton-robberies-on-e-scooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44321\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt knife-wielding man fleeing Hamilton robberies on e-scooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have appealed to the public for information on a man believed to have committed a series of aggravated robberies before fleeing on an e-scooter each time.<\/p>\n<p>Three food outlets at the Dinsdale Shopping Centre had been targeted in the last few days, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Matt Lee said the man arrived on a black e-scooter and entered the store demanding money while brandishing a knife.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On September 24, he robbed one shop, on September 25, he robbed two shops before fleeing the scenes on the e-scooter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A victim was assaulted by the man during the second robbery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-man-allegedly-committed-aggravated-robberies-at-three-di-FQ562ZJ3GZEYTKZTOHQLZXX6HY.png\" alt=\"The man allegedly committed aggravated robberies at three Dinsdale food outlets this week.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The man allegedly committed aggravated robberies at three Dinsdale food outlets this week. (Source: NZ Police)<\/p>\n<p>Lee said police believed the man had committed all three robberies and was actively seeking information to assist the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community can expect to see an increase in safety patrols in the area over the coming days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with relevant information should contact 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have appealed to the public for information on a man believed to have committed a series of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-44321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-hamilton-waikato","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44321","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=44321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}