An alleged armed burglar is in hospital after entering a property in Mangawhai \u2013 where he was disarmed by the house’s occupants. <\/p>\n
Just before 2pm, police were called to an address on Robert St after an unknown man entered a property armed with a piece of wood and confronted the residents, Acting Detective Inspector Megan Goldie said. <\/p>\n
“This male has advanced on the occupants, and a confrontation has occurred where the occupants have disarmed the male.”<\/p>\n
Police and ambulance staff were alerted as medical assistance was provided to the unknown man by the occupants.<\/p>\n
Goldie said a 26-year-old man was taken to Whang\u0101rei Hospital.<\/p>\n
“He is in a serious condition, but those injuries are currently not thought to be life-threatening,” he said. <\/p>\n
“An investigation is now underway to establish exactly what has occurred this afternoon, but I can reassure the community that police are not seeking anyone else in relation to this incident.”<\/p>\n
A scene guard had been set up at the Robert St address, with a scene examination to take place at a later stage.<\/p>\n
A heightened police presence in the Mangawhai community was to be expected in response to the events. <\/p>\n
No charged had been confirmed at this stage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alleged armed burglar is in hospital after entering a property in Mangawhai \u2013 where he was disarmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,1067,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-578928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-northland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578928","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=578928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}