{"id":15477,"date":"2025-10-28T06:35:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15477"},"modified":"2025-10-28T06:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:35:23","slug":"pacific-championship-league-showdown-sparks-23-arrests-200-infringements-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15477","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Championship league showdown sparks 23 arrests, 200 infringements in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Risky behaviour and disorder on the roads has resulted in 23 arrests during celebrations for a Pacific Championship league game, as some fans became too rowdy, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were out in the Auckland suburbs of \u014ct\u0101huhu, M\u0101ngere, \u014ctara and Clendon, monitoring behaviour around the intense rivalry between Toa Samoa and Mate Ma&#8217;a Tonga during their clash at Brisbane&#8217;s Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>More than 44,000 supporters crammed into the venue to create vibrant atmosphere that was interrupted for 90 minutes, when a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/576955\/live-updates-tonga-v-samoa-rugby-league-pacific-championship\">lightning storm drove players from the field<\/a>. When they returned, Samoa emerged 34-6 winners to book a place in the competition final.<\/p>\n<p>Across this side of the Tasman, fans were also out in force, with police thanking &#8220;the majority who celebrated peacefully and lawfully&#8221;, but &#8220;there were multiple incidents that were disappointing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Problem behaviour incidents included high-risk traffic offending, people riding on top of vehicles and sustained loss of traction. Officers tallied 14 arrests on Saturday, nine on Sunday, and 204 infringement notices issued for driving and road-related offences during their patrols in the Auckland suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>The passionate competition between fans of the teams was widely visible across parts of the country in the lead-up to the match, with many mounting flags and messages on vehicles, or celebrating with music.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risky behaviour and disorder on the roads has resulted in 23 arrests during celebrations for a Pacific Championship league game, as some fans became too rowdy, police say. Officers were out in the Auckland suburbs of \u014ct\u0101huhu, M\u0101ngere, \u014ctara and Clendon, monitoring behaviour around the intense rivalry between Toa Samoa and Mate Ma&#8217;a Tonga during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15477","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15479,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15477\/revisions\/15479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}