{"id":621558,"date":"2026-10-05T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621558\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:22:09","slug":"party-gatecrasher-tasered-after-hurling-rocks-at-police-from-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621558\/","title":{"rendered":"Party gatecrasher tasered after hurling rocks at police from river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A man accused of gate-crashing a Dunedin party, allegedly assaulting one of the hosts before hurling rocks at police from the Water of Leith and being tasered, now faces multiple charges, including assaulting first responders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were called to an address on Leith St at around 2pm on Sunday after reports of a disorder incident involving a man who had gone into a private party uninvited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Senior Sergeant Ian Notman said the man had allegedly assaulted one of the hosts, who was unknown to him, and caused further disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Attending officers found the man in question standing in the Water of Leith, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;After officers negotiated with him to leave the water and stop throwing rocks, he continued to behave in a threatening manner. As a result, a taser was deployed and the man was taken into custody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Notman said the man suffered a medical event after his arrest and was treated by ambulance staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;While receiving care, he allegedly assaulted attending paramedics and police officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">New offences for attacks on first responders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/08\/06\/new-assault-shoplifting-and-citizens-arrest-laws-pass-into-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed into law in August<\/a>, with the previous offence of assaulting a police officer changed to include paramedics, firefighters and prison officers \u2013 now carrying a maximum penalty of three years&#8217; imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A 32-year-old man has charged with threatening to kill, burglary, common assault, wilful damage, resisting police and assaulting first responders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He was due to appear in the Dunedin District Court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of gate-crashing a Dunedin party, allegedly assaulting one of the hosts before hurling rocks at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,1080,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-621558","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\/621558","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=621558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}