{"id":530572,"date":"2026-07-17T11:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/530572\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:28:14","slug":"man-arrested-in-foxton-after-serious-assault-leaves-one-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/530572\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Foxton after serious assault leaves one critical"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has been arrested after armed police and dog units searched the Foxton area following a serious assault in Whangaehu which left one person in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to an address on Whangaehu Village Rd, southeast of Whanganui, at about 11.50am today following reports of a serious assault. <\/p>\n

St John said crews treated one patient in a critical condition before transporting them to Whanganui Hospital.<\/p>\n

Manawat\u016b acting area commander Inspector Phil Ward said an alleged offender had left the scene in a vehicle before police arrived.<\/p>\n

Officers located and pursued the vehicle as it travelled towards Foxton, where it was abandoned on Bergin Rd at about 12.40pm, he said.<\/p>\n

The vehicle travelled about 65km before it was dumped in the Horowhenua town.<\/p>\n

\"Armed<\/p>\n

Armed police and dog units searched the Foxton area following a serious assault in Whangaehu which left one person in a critical condition. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

Ward said the man was located and arrested in the vicinity of the Foxton Golf Club just before 3.30pm.<\/p>\n

“Police are not looking for anybody else in relation to the earlier assault in Whangaehu,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We would like to thank the members of the public for their cooperation while police worked to locate this man.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after armed police and dog units searched the Foxton area following a serious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,31044,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-530572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-manawatu-wanganui","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530572","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=530572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}