{"id":507635,"date":"2026-07-03T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/507635\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:03:09","slug":"arrest-in-west-auckland-after-reports-of-intimidation-on-titirangi-walking-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/507635\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest in West Auckland after reports of intimidation on Titirangi walking track"},"content":{"rendered":"

Her post prompted other members of the community to share their experiences, some claiming they had encountered the same man on the track years earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same thing happened to me at Zig Zag track with the same man, like a good few years ago now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another commenter claimed the man had a history of confronting people in the suburb. The commentator said his own wife was among those to had been targeted.<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty sure this is the same guy that walks the Titirangi area and is known to have occasional outbursts\/weird confrontations with others, particularly women.\u201d<\/p>\n

A third woman claimed the man had yelled at her and a friend outside a local eatery.<\/p>\n

Acting Waitemat\u0101 West area prevention manager Inspector Nick Salter said police were aware of the post and had since spoken with the man about his behaviour.<\/p>\n

The 60-year-old had been charged with intimidation and would appear in Wait\u0101kere District Court on July 8.<\/p>\n

Salter encouraged anyone feeling unsafe to contact 111 in an emergency or report any suspicious or intimidatory behaviours to 105, online or via the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her post prompted other members of the community to share their experiences, some claiming they had encountered the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,14466,51,1558,682,13239,60044,78,97196,2510,111,139,69,1118,90,15267,766,213,52047,22974,4770,3807,102,2248],"class_list":["post-507635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-arrest","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-being","tag-charged","tag-followed","tag-in","tag-intimidation","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-reported","tag-reports","tag-sports","tag-titirangi","tag-track","tag-walking","tag-west","tag-with","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507635","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=507635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}