{"id":632834,"date":"2026-10-16T22:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632834\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T22:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:12:09","slug":"man-charged-after-allegedly-pointing-speargun-at-neighbour-lighting-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632834\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after allegedly pointing speargun at neighbour, lighting fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Auckland man has been charged after allegedly pointing a speargun at his neighbour before pouring petrol onto a pavement and setting it alight <\/p>\n<p>Police said officers were called to a confrontation between neighbours at around 9pm on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>During the incident, a person allegedly pointed a speargun at their neighbour before pouring petrol onto the pavement and lighting it. The fire extinguished itself.<\/p>\n<p>Police attended the scene and arrested a man, who was charged with presenting a firearm. <\/p>\n<p>A 43-year-old man was due to appear in the North Shore District Court today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland man has been charged after allegedly pointing a speargun at his neighbour before pouring petrol onto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-632834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632834","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=632834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}