{"id":599079,"date":"2026-09-13T12:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599079\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:38:18","slug":"police-search-north-shore-after-firearm-allegedly-pulled-in-birkenhead-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599079\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search North Shore after firearm allegedly pulled in Birkenhead fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Armed police searched Arran Rd in Browns Bay after an earlier fight in Birkenhead where a firearm was allegedly pulled.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Armed police searched Arran Rd in Browns Bay after an earlier fight in Birkenhead where a firearm was allegedly pulled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">An Arran Rd resident told the Herald he was driving home at about 5.30pm when he found the street blocked by armed police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The Eagle helicopter circled overhead, both entrances to the road were closed, and residents were told they could not enter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOne police officer at the roundabout took out his gun and walked down Arran Road,\u201d the resident said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The resident said up to seven police cars had been on the road, though they had since left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed to the Herald that the activity in Browns Bay was connected to the earlier Birkenhead incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police searched Arran Rd in Browns Bay after an earlier fight in Birkenhead where a firearm was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7818,7814,3952,109397,2837,19555,15124,15226,78,111,43,139,529,69,17711,675,26525,1870,11929,18484,1961],"class_list":["post-599079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-armed","tag-aucklands","tag-birkenhead","tag-during","tag-evening","tag-fight","tag-firearm","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-parts","tag-police","tag-pulled","tag-search","tag-searching","tag-shore","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599079","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=599079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}