{"id":195581,"date":"2025-12-22T00:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195581\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T00:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:27:10","slug":"toyota-hilux-driver-fleeing-police-along-awatoto-beach-arrested-after-ute-stuck-in-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195581\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Hilux driver fleeing police along Awatoto beach arrested after ute stuck in sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/883bb8ac-d5cc-41c3-bd2a-6744ce421051.png\" alt=\"Rafaella Melo\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/author\/rafaella-melo\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Rafaella Melo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reporter\u00b7Hawkes Bay Today\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>21 Dec, 2025 11:12 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police have arrested a man after a pursuit ended when his ute got stuck on Awatoto Beach near Napier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have arrested a 37-year-old man after a ute fled from officers in Napier before becoming stranded on a beach at Awatoto on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A police spokeswoman said the driver failed to stop for police in Marewa about 9pm, leading to a chase through the city, before the vehicle<br \/>\n         became stuck on the sand at Awatoto Beach.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe sole occupant was arrested at Waitangi Park shortly before midnight,\u201d the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The man is due to appear in Napier District Court on Tuesday  on a range of driving-related charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The vehicle, a Toyota Hilux, was not stolen, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafaella Melo Reporter\u00b7Hawkes Bay Today\u00b7 21 Dec, 2025 11:12 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,33846,11924,121081,7972,19552,15037,42,89817,78,43,675,2751,29460,40,38,41,39,1733,35538],"class_list":["post-195581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-along","tag-arrested","tag-awatoto","tag-beach","tag-driver","tag-fleeing","tag-headlines","tag-hilux","tag-in","tag-news","tag-police","tag-sand","tag-stuck","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-toyota","tag-ute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195581","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=195581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}