{"id":644991,"date":"2026-10-29T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644991\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:32:20","slug":"albany-bus-incident-four-taken-into-custody-after-reports-of-threatening-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644991\/","title":{"rendered":"Albany bus incident: Four taken into custody after reports of threatening behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police said inquiries were continuing to locate anyone else involved.<\/p>\n

The incident follows a series of violent incidents on Auckland buses this year.<\/p>\n

In March, a 21-year-old student was punched by a stranger<\/a> while travelling home from Massey University\u2019s Albany campus and Takapuna.<\/p>\n

His father told the Herald at the time that his son had been left shaken by the attack and urged other passengers to remain vigilant.<\/p>\n

Police later linked a 36-year-old man, who had been arrested over a separate matter, to the assault.<\/p>\n

In February, a 20-year-old woman was charged after allegedly attacking a bus driver who refused to let her board<\/a> on Queen St in the central city.<\/p>\n

Police said the woman chased the bus before forcing her way aboard and assaulting the driver during the late evening.<\/p>\n

The woman fled before police arrived, while an ambulance was called to treat the injured driver.<\/p>\n

Officers later spotted her near Vulcan Lane, where she allegedly attempted to flee again before being arrested and charged with injuring with intent to injure.<\/p>\n

A woman travelling to work back in January, was allegedly assaulted by a group of passengers<\/a> near the back of a West Auckland bus.<\/p>\n

The alleged attack was understood to have been unprovoked.<\/p>\n

Auckland Transport said the driver was unaware of the altercation until it was brought to their attention at the end of the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said inquiries were continuing to locate anyone else involved. The incident follows a series of violent incidents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,41009,51,1558,44183,30482,11928,19555,3011,305,671,296,111,43,139,69,1118,384,766,19554,1961,12419],"class_list":["post-644991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-albany","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-behaviour","tag-bus","tag-custody","tag-evening","tag-four","tag-have","tag-incident","tag-into","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-people","tag-reports","tag-taken","tag-this","tag-threatening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644991","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=644991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}