{"id":81002,"date":"2025-10-15T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81002\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:30:07","slug":"rotorua-taxi-robbery-driver-forced-to-withraw-money-at-gunpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81002\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua taxi robbery: Driver forced to withraw money at gunpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThankfully, the taxi driver was uninjured but is understandably shaken by this incident,\u201d Brady said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Just before 1am today, a man suspected to be the passenger was seen at a Rotorua bar before leaving in a different taxi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">When police stopped the taxi, an airgun was found, and a man was arrested. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">A 26-year-old is due to appear in the Rotorua District Court today, charged with aggravated robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThankfully, the taxi driver was uninjured but is understandably shaken by this incident,\u201d Brady said. Just before 1am&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,19552,679,62264,300,111,43,139,69,14734,60725,27517,1327,44868,61,62265,62263],"class_list":["post-81002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-at","tag-driver","tag-forced","tag-gunpoint","tag-money","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passenger","tag-picking","tag-robbery","tag-rotorua","tag-taxi","tag-to","tag-withdraw","tag-withraw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81002","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=81002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}