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<\/p>\nPhoto:\u00a0123RF<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Police said the man was aggressive and abusive towards customers and staff after being asked to wear a mask inside.<\/p>\n It’s alleged he then attacked a 70-year-old man, threatened staff and left before the police arrived.<\/p>\n The victim was shaken, but did not need medical treatment.<\/p>\n The 20-year-old has been charged with assault, threatening behaviour, driving while disqualified and failing to comply with the health order.<\/p>\n Police said a person was stopped at one of the northern checkpoints in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n He had the correct documentation and was free to go, but then accelerated and was detected leaving the checkpoint at over 90km\/h resulting in him being issued with several infringement notices, police said.<\/p>\n Police said others are still failing to have the correct documentation at checkpoints.<\/p>\n One driver claimed he was transiting through Auckland to Waikato in the early hours of the morning but after questioning him, police found this was not the case.<\/p>\n While at the checkpoint, another man was found hiding in the car’s boot, police said.<\/p>\n Both men, aged 25 and 26, were issued with infringement notices.<\/p>\n –RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 20-year-old man has been arrested and charged after refusing to wear a mask in a supermarket and then allegedly punching a customer in the face. Photo:\u00a0123RF Police said the man was aggressive and abusive towards customers and staff after being asked to wear a mask inside. It’s alleged he then attacked a 70-year-old man, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news","tag-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Police warn people not to speed at boundary checkpoints<\/h3>\n