{"id":444933,"date":"2026-05-25T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/444933\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:40:08","slug":"mt-wellington-police-incident-armed-police-guard-home-after-person-suffers-serious-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/444933\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Wellington police incident: Armed police guard home after person suffers serious injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt this stage the road remains open, however, motorists are advised to take alternative routes or expect delays.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">A witness said sirens could be heard, and a police helicopter was flying in the area. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Armed police outside a Mt Wellington Highway property where a person suffered a serious injury.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Armed police outside a Mt Wellington Highway property where a person suffered a serious injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">A specialist in white protective gear could be seen walking around the outside of a property at the centre of the investigation. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Armed police guard a property on Mt Wellington Highway after an incident where a person was seriously injured.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Armed police guard a property on Mt Wellington Highway after an incident where a person was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said one person was transferred to hospital in a serious condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">One rapid response unit, an ambulance and two road managers were sent to the scene. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAt this stage the road remains open, however, motorists are advised to take alternative routes or expect delays.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,7814,51,33738,227037,42,1345,671,10933,15258,1304,10048,43,4056,675,814,1238,23419,6378,1961,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-444933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-armed","tag-auckland","tag-guard","tag-guarding","tag-headlines","tag-home","tag-incident","tag-injured","tag-injury","tag-morning","tag-mt","tag-news","tag-person","tag-police","tag-property","tag-serious","tag-seriously","tag-suffers","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444933","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=444933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}