{"id":562423,"date":"2026-08-08T03:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562423\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:24:09","slug":"one-arrested-another-in-hospital-following-rotorua-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562423\/","title":{"rendered":"One arrested, another in hospital following Rotorua assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested following an assault in Rotorua overnight, with the victim taken to hospital in a critical condition. <\/p>\n<p>Police said officers were called to the Rotorua Lakefront at around 3.15 am.  <\/p>\n<p>The victim was found in a critical condition and taken to hospital.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The alleged offender was located nearby a short time later and taken into custody,&#8221; Acting Detective Inspector Louise Curragh said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are now working to establish the full circumstances of what has occurred, and charges are being considered.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information was asked to call police on 105. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested following an assault in Rotorua overnight, with the victim taken to hospital in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-562423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562423","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=562423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}