The woman was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition and the child received minor injuries, Crawford said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth are understandably shaken. There is no place for this sort of violent behaviour in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
The arrest was a great result after a \u201cterrifying ordeal for the victims\u201d, Crawford said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pleased we have been able to arrest this man and hold him to account.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police had since found a firearm and property believed to be from the victims\u2019 address, he said.<\/p>\n
A 38-year-old man remained in custody, with charges pending.<\/p>\n
Police want to hear from anyone who witnessed the incident on Williams Ave, or any sightings of a yellow Suzuki Swift travelling west on State Highway 12 towards Whirinaki, Kouto Loop Rd and then \u014cpononi and \u014cm\u0101pere.<\/p>\n
They were also seeking sightings of a male acting suspiciously in the \u014cm\u0101pere area on Thursday morning, Crawford said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone who can assist our inquiries is asked to get in touch. Information can be provided online at 105.police.govt.nz, or by calling 105. Please use the reference number 260820\/5258.\u201d<\/p>\n
Information could also be given anonymously through Crime Stoppers by calling 0800 555 111. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition and the child received minor injuries,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,26480,1554,2851,11924,32034,1344,2511,30616,5158,1329,111,43,139,69,17699,675,3109,27517,8145,5659,23419,36096,13920,6845,20424,3608,6123,102,1354],"class_list":["post-574699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aggravated","tag-alleged","tag-also","tag-arrested","tag-assaulted","tag-attacked","tag-child","tag-kaikohe","tag-man","tag-member","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offender","tag-police","tag-public","tag-robbery","tag-run","tag-say","tag-seriously","tag-steal","tag-tried","tag-vehicle","tag-violent","tag-were","tag-while","tag-with","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574699","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=574699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}