Four people have been arrested following an investigation into a series of unprovoked assaults in Dunedin that left several people injured. <\/p>\n
Otago Coastal Area Commander Inspector Porima Rangitutia said the arrests related to three assaults reported between August 16 and 21. <\/p>\n
In each incident, victims reported being approached by a group of people and assaulted without provocation, with several suffering moderate to severe injuries. <\/p>\n
Officers from the Dunedin\u00a0Criminal Investigations Branch carried out a series of search warrants across the city on Tuesday and Wednesday. <\/p>\n
“The search warrants followed extensive Police inquiries and have resulted in four people, aged between 18 and 19, being arrested,” Rangitutia said.<\/p>\n
“They face charges of wounding with intent to injure, and injuring with intent to injure.”<\/p>\n
They were due to appear in Dunedin District Court next month and had been remanded on strict bail conditions. <\/p>\n
Rangitutia thanked members of the public who came forward with information during the investigation.<\/p>\n
“Everyone in our community deserves to feel safe, no matter where they are,” he said. <\/p>\n
“What the victims experienced is something nobody should have to go through, and I want to acknowledge them for coming forward.<\/p>\n
“Violent offending of this nature has no place in our community and will not be tolerated.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people have been arrested following an investigation into a series of unprovoked assaults in Dunedin that left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,1080,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-583694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583694","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=583694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}