{"id":503148,"date":"2026-06-30T18:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503148\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:40:15","slug":"police-investigating-after-man-asked-hutt-valley-child-to-get-into-his-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503148\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating after man asked Hutt Valley child to get into his van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>30 Jun, 2026 05:39 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A child refused an offer to get into a man&#8217;s van outside a Hutt Valley school and told a parent, who contacted police on Monday evening. Photo \/ RNZ, Cole Eastham-Farrelly<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police say they are investigating after a parent reported a man asked their child to get into a van outside a school in the Hutt Valley on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cPolice were notified that a man in a van asked a young person to get in the van, claiming they<br \/>\n         had been instructed by the person\u2019s parents to pick them up from school,\u201d Inspector Wade Jennings said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe young person thankfully refused the offer and informed a parent who notified police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">He said the incident happened in Maungaraki about 3pm on Monday, with police advised about 7.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 30 Jun, 2026 05:39 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,13916,2511,1333,293,49947,296,17709,5158,111,43,139,69,675,61,2217,11427],"class_list":["post-503148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-asked","tag-child","tag-get","tag-his","tag-hutt","tag-into","tag-investigating","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-to","tag-valley","tag-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503148","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=503148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}