{"id":461824,"date":"2026-06-05T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/461824\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:01:11","slug":"naked-man-charged-with-trying-to-drown-police-dog-after-trespassing-pt-chevalier-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/461824\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked man charged with trying to drown police dog after trespassing Pt Chevalier property"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A police dog was allegedly assaulted and nearly drowned as officers tried to apprehend a naked trespasser at a Pt Chevalier property. Photo \/ Brydie Thompson<\/p>\n

A naked man allegedly attempted to drown a police dog in a swamp during an incident in Auckland overnight.<\/p>\n

Just before 5pm, police received reports of a naked man, allegedly carrying a crowbar, making his way into the back of a Pt Chevalier property.<\/p>\n

\n Auckland City west area response manager
\n senior sergeant Guy Baldwin said officers, including a dog unit, arrived quickly at the scene on Great North Rd.\n <\/p>\n

The 38-year-old man was found in a nearby swamp and after he resisted officers, the police dog was released.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man has then proceeded to assault and attempt to drown the dog before officers stepped in to prevent any further harm to the dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 5 Jun, 2026 02:25 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7818,5765,51,13239,234106,9219,105200,2837,671,5158,34700,111,43,139,69,6507,675,814,181094,234107,61,52383,28355,102],"class_list":["post-461824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-attempted","tag-auckland","tag-charged","tag-chevalier","tag-dog","tag-drown","tag-during","tag-incident","tag-man","tag-naked","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-police","tag-property","tag-pt","tag-swamp","tag-to","tag-trespassing","tag-trying","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461824","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=461824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}