{"id":201670,"date":"2025-12-25T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/201670\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:43:08","slug":"levin-crash-after-police-abandon-pursuits-three-taken-into-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/201670\/","title":{"rendered":"Levin crash after police abandon pursuits: Three taken into custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The person of interest abandoned the first vehicle and got into a second one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Another pursuit was authorised but was also abandoned after a short time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The second vehicle then crashed into a car on Queen St about 2.20pm before fleeing again. The member of the public in the struck vehicle was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Just before 2.30pm, the vehicle that had been followed by police came to a stop on Prouse St. One person was tasered and taken into custody, while two others were also apprehended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Police ask anyone who witnessed this incident or has footage to contact them via 105, either over the phone or online, using reference number P064901318.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The person of interest abandoned the first vehicle and got into a second one. Another pursuit was authorised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70359,74,11730,3549,11928,296,123192,111,43,139,69,384,675,31955,13109,19554,1961,1529],"class_list":["post-201670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-abandon","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-crash","tag-custody","tag-into","tag-levin","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-police","tag-pursuits","tag-several","tag-taken","tag-this","tag-three"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201670","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=201670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}