{"id":593980,"date":"2026-09-08T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593980\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:46:13","slug":"twizel-alleged-assault-man-arrested-600km-away-in-seddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593980\/","title":{"rendered":"Twizel alleged assault: Man arrested 600km away in Seddon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FUH5PCT45RDQVD4QZVPYMO7ORE.png\" alt=\"Jazlyn Whales\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/jazlyn-whales\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Jazlyn Whales<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>8 Sep, 2026 01:30 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man has been arrested nearly 600km away after an alleged late-night assault in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/south-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/south-island\/\">South Island<\/a> town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said there was an argument and assault involving people who knew each other at a Twizel property shortly after midnight on September 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said the alleged<br \/>\n         offender left before they arrived.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">However, officers traced the man to Seddon, near Blenheim, almost 600km away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jazlyn Whales Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 8 Sep, 2026 01:30 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[292819,74,1554,11924,17704,4995,1558,78,2514,8526,5158,11692,111,139,69,151770,1240,213,2951,25628],"class_list":["post-593980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-600km","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-arrested","tag-assault","tag-away","tag-been","tag-in","tag-island","tag-latenight","tag-man","tag-nearly","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-seddon","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-town","tag-twizel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593980","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=593980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}