{"id":535246,"date":"2026-07-20T14:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535246\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:21:25","slug":"man-faces-multiple-charges-after-alleged-serious-assault-near-whanganui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535246\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces multiple charges after alleged serious assault near Whanganui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The victim remains in hospital. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man has been charged with aggravated robbery and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after a person was critically injured near Whanganui.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The person was allegedly assaulted on Whangaehu Village Rd, 15 minutes south of Whanganui, on Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The 27-year-old reportedly fled the scene in<br \/>\n         a vehicle before police arrived.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">Officers found and pursued the vehicle as it travelled towards Foxton. Police dog units and armed staff were deployed to Foxton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/whanganui-chronicle\/news\/police-search-underway-for-fleeing-driver-after-serious-assault-in-whangaehu-leaves-one-critical\/6PNU77RYSNGWRMK7AXB76RE65M\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/whanganui-chronicle\/news\/police-search-underway-for-fleeing-driver-after-serious-assault-in-whangaehu-leaves-one-critical\/6PNU77RYSNGWRMK7AXB76RE65M\/\">man was taken into custody near the Foxton Golf Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim remains in hospital. Photo \/ NZME A man has been charged with aggravated robbery and wounding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,26480,1554,17704,1558,24039,25346,13239,1873,12939,6119,24038,11521,10933,25491,5158,2510,3180,111,43,139,69,4056,27517,1238,1883,102,26105],"class_list":["post-535246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aggravated","tag-alleged","tag-assault","tag-been","tag-bodily","tag-cause","tag-charged","tag-charges","tag-critically","tag-faces","tag-grievous","tag-harm","tag-injured","tag-intent","tag-man","tag-multiple","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-robbery","tag-serious","tag-whanganui","tag-with","tag-wounding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535246","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=535246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}