{"id":572213,"date":"2026-08-18T00:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/572213\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:50:10","slug":"man-charged-after-people-allegedly-chased-threatened-with-scissors-at-aucklands-nixon-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/572213\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after people allegedly chased, threatened with scissors at Auckland\u2019s Nixon Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">He is due to appear in Auckland District Court on October 21.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police charged a 52-year-old man on Sunday afternoon after responding to reports of threatening behaviour at Nixon Park. Photo \/ Jason Oxenham \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police charged a 52-year-old man on Sunday afternoon after responding to reports of threatening behaviour at Nixon Park. Photo \/ Jason Oxenham <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">One witness took to a local Facebook group on Sunday afternoon, warning people in the area to be wary after he was allegedly chased along Bond St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Another person subsequently  advised locals to exercise caution when visiting the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA man was arrested there yesterday afternoon for chasing people with what appeared to be a knife,\u201d they wrote yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLuckily this incident was quickly contained by police, but please keep an eye out in case something similar happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The local said there were often young children at Nixon Park throughout the day, \u201cso let\u2019s keep them safe and look out for each other\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He is due to appear in Auckland District Court on October 21. Police charged a 52-year-old man on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,7818,11924,1975,51,3952,1558,1853,13239,20491,5162,156,5158,111,139,204050,69,8143,282009,384,191019,544,18937,6123,66962,102],"class_list":["post-572213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-arrested","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-been","tag-central","tag-charged","tag-chased","tag-chasing","tag-entertainment","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nixon","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-passersby","tag-people","tag-scissors","tag-some","tag-threatened","tag-while","tag-wielding","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572213","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=572213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}