A man has been taken into custody after he was found hiding under a child’s bed in Auckland \u2013 having allegedly run off from police while trying to ditch a gun.<\/p>\n
Inspector Nina Pedersen said the dramatic scenes began to unfold when officers spotted a speeding vehicle on the Northern Motorway near Puhoi. <\/p>\n
The vehicle was confirmed as stolen and was tracked speeding off the motorway at \u014crewa, carrying on through Silverdale and south to Albany. The Eagle helicopter then continued monitoring it. <\/p>\n
The vehicle was spiked on Oteha Valley Rd, and the two men got out of the vehicle on Kallista Pl in Browns Bay. Pedersen said they then fled into a nearby property. <\/p>\n
One surrendered to police “immediately”, while the other, seen carrying a gun, hid the weapon on a roof and jumped over fences into nearby properties, Pedersen said. <\/p>\n
Cordons were put in place, and a dog handler was called in. <\/p>\n
The inspector said the man was found attempting to hide under a child’s bed. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe has resisted arrest and received a small dog bite, which was treated at the scene,” Pedersen said. <\/p>\n
Officers also recovered a weapon. <\/p>\n
A 29-year-old man was scheduled to appear in the North Shore District Court today, charged with unlawfully getting into a vehicle, possession of an offensive weapon, resisting police and unlawfully in a building.<\/p>\n
A 37-year-old man was charged with dangerous driving, unlawfully taking a motor vehicle, possession of methamphetamine and contravening a protection order. He was also due to appear in the North Shore District Court today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been taken into custody after he was found hiding under a child’s bed in Auckland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-163852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163852","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=163852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}