{"id":453683,"date":"2026-05-31T05:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453683\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:52:09","slug":"bystanders-praised-for-action-after-walking-frame-user-robbed-in-gisborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453683\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystanders praised for action after walking frame user robbed in Gisborne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gisborne police have praised the actions of bystanders which resulted in the arrest of a woman after a 65-year-old woman using a walking frame was robbed in Gisborne.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was outside a superette on Roebuck Rd at around 10am on Saturday when she was threatened and money in her hands was allegedly snatched.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was witnessed by the victim\u2019s son, the superette owner and another bystander, who all followed the alleged offender to an address on Anzac St until police arrived. <\/p>\n<p>Police arrested a 29-year-old woman who has been charged with robbery and is due to appear in Gisborne District Court on June 2.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Debra Rasmussen said the police would like to thank the bystanders who took action in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did the right thing by immediately calling emergency services, while also taking safe steps to ensure officers could quickly locate the woman involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victim was unharmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gisborne police have praised the actions of bystanders which resulted in the arrest of a woman after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,12506,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-453683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-gisborne","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453683","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=453683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}