{"id":598867,"date":"2026-09-13T07:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598867\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T07:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:38:25","slug":"featherston-hotel-robbery-intruder-allegedly-puts-gun-to-workers-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598867\/","title":{"rendered":"Featherston hotel robbery: Intruder allegedly puts gun to worker\u2019s chest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Kaur said the man put a gun against the staff member\u2019s chest and ordered him to get the keys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they were alerted to a robbery at a Featherston business at 7.10am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">They said a firearm was allegedly presented to the staff member and cash was demanded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Kaur was not at the hotel when the robbery happened but travelled overnight to Featherston to support her staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">She said nobody was physically injured, although the staff member was badly shaken.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" The Empire Hotel Featherston. Photo \/ New Zealand Pubs Past &amp; Present\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> The Empire Hotel Featherston. Photo \/ New Zealand Pubs Past &amp; Present<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Senior Sergeant Jen Blackwood said following the incident, \u201cthe alleged offender fled on foot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice established cordons but were unable to locate the alleged offender at the time. Inquiries continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Police are asking for anyone who saw something, or may have CCTV footage of the area, to contact 105 and quote file 260913\/0922.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" 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":"Kaur said the man put a gun against the staff member\u2019s chest and ordered him to get the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7818,2836,5657,73952,2837,77435,118937,3606,6735,20285,296,123078,111,139,69,2738,43296,27517,16784,312,213,17435,20110,61,1316,12767,4478],"class_list":["post-598867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-allegedly","tag-burst","tag-chest","tag-dreaming","tag-during","tag-earlymorning","tag-featherston","tag-gun","tag-hotel","tag-hotels","tag-into","tag-intruder","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owner","tag-puts","tag-robbery","tag-room","tag-says","tag-sports","tag-terrifying","tag-thought","tag-to","tag-when","tag-worker","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598867","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=598867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}