{"id":551227,"date":"2026-07-30T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551227\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:24:13","slug":"nine-more-arrested-over-gang-brawl-on-palmerston-north-court-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551227\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine more arrested over gang brawl on Palmerston North court steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine more people have been arrested and charged in relation to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/07\/16\/person-critically-injured-in-gang-fight-outside-palmerston-north-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gang brawl on the steps of Palmerston North District Court<\/a> which left a man critically injured earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the public entrance of the courthouse on July 16 at around 10am following reports of the altercation. <\/p>\n<p>A 33-year-old man was arrested and charged at the time and was due to reappear in Palmerston North District Court on August 18, charged with fighting in a public place and theft from a person.<\/p>\n<p>Manawat\u016b acting area commander Inspector Phil Ward said the investigation team worked to identify and locate those believed to be involved, culminating in nine further arrests.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/images-sent-to-1news-showed-emergency-services-including-mul-COZZ5B3PZVEVTFUQ35ZVEKP4CA.jpg\" alt=\"Images sent to 1News showed emergency services parked outside the court building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Images sent to 1News showed emergency services parked outside the court building. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>He thanked court security staff and attending police for their &#8220;swift response and decisive intervention&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They put themselves directly in harm\u2019s way to separate the group, and ultimately prevented this situation from escalating further,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Violence of this nature will not be tolerated, and we remain committed to holding those believed to be responsible to account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nine additional people, aged 15 to 33, would appear in Palmerston North District Court throughout August, facing charges of fighting in a public place, assault with intent to injure, and criminal damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine more people have been arrested and charged in relation to a gang brawl on the steps of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,31044,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-551227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-manawatu-wanganui","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551227","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=551227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}