A man has been arrested in Auckland after allegedly threatening members of the public with a speargun and stealing a vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police said the man arrived at a house on Wyllie Rd in the suburb of Papatoetoe and attempted to open the front door just before lunchtime.<\/p>\n
Senior Sergeant Steve Albrey said he was unsuccessful and left.<\/p>\n
“He walked towards a neighbouring driveway where a woman was driving out in her vehicle. The man allegedly pointed a spear gun at the woman but, fortunately, she locked her doors and quickly drove away.”<\/p>\n
The man then continued to nearby Hillcrest Rd where he approached another member of the public’s car.<\/p>\n
“The driver was demanded to hand over his keys, which escalated when the spear gun was allegedly pointed at the frightened man,” Albrey said.<\/p>\n
The man then allegedly fled in the victim’s vehicle towards Manukau, with the Police Eagle helicopter responding to track its movements, locating the vehicle on Cavendish Dr.<\/p>\n
“Eagle was watching overhead when the spear gun was thrown from the vehicle, and directed another unit to retrieve it,” Albrey said.<\/p>\n
Spikes were deployed on Beatty Ave in Manurewa, where the man was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
The 42-year-old man will appear in the Manukau District Court tomorrow, facing charges of aggravated robbery and attempts aggravated robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in Auckland after allegedly threatening members of the public with a speargun and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-157845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157845","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=157845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}