{"id":453889,"date":"2026-05-31T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453889\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:37:12","slug":"police-use-sponge-round-dog-to-arrest-woman-after-timaru-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453889\/","title":{"rendered":"Police use sponge round, dog to arrest woman after Timaru threats"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hill said several police officers negotiated with the woman before she finally stepped out of the vehicle 45 minutes later.<\/p>\n
Police alleged she then tried to flee on foot.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the seriousness of the threats that had been made, a police dog and a sponge round were used to effect an arrest,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n
Video of the arrest obtained by the Herald shows seven police cars establishing a shutdown of King St from the Shaw St intersection.<\/p>\n
The woman is seen in the carpark of Thirsty Liquor Redruth speaking with officers while appearing to film the incident on her phone.<\/p>\n
She then turns and begins walking towards her vehicle.<\/p>\n
Eight police officers were involved in the arrest of a woman in Timaru.<\/p>\n
Moments later, a loud bang is heard and the woman screams, raising her arms towards her face.<\/p>\n
A police dog latches on to her left hip and pulls her towards eight waiting officers, who move in to handcuff her as she lies face down on the concrete.<\/p>\n
Police said the woman was taken to hospital for the dog bite.<\/p>\n
She was charged with threatening to kill or cause grievous bodily harm and refusing to provide a blood sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hill said several police officers negotiated with the woman before she finally stepped out of the vehicle 45…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,7818,14466,46919,8126,9219,42,14910,1446,43,675,18833,1240,45336,20705,26452,11729,61,40,38,41,39,6306,1354],"class_list":["post-453889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-arrest","tag-bitten","tag-canterbury","tag-dog","tag-headlines","tag-kill","tag-making","tag-news","tag-police","tag-round","tag-south","tag-sponge","tag-struck","tag-threats","tag-timaru","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-use","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453889","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=453889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}