Attributable to Detective Senior Sergeant Scott Neilson<\/p>\n
Four people will appear in the Hamilton Youth Court tomorrow on a number of charges following an aggravated robbery in Thames today.<\/p>\n
Two men, aged 20, 18, and two 14-year-old boys are charged with aggravated robbery, unlawfully using a vehicle and failing to stop for Police.<\/p>\n
About 8am today, Police received a report of an aggravated robbery at a business on Pollen Street, Thames.<\/p>\n
Prior to Police arriving, the alleged offenders were seen fleeing the scene in a vehicle before abandoning it on a nearby street and leaving the area in a different vehicle.<\/p>\n
Through enquiries Police were able to identify the second vehicle being used by the alleged offenders.<\/p>\n
A short time later, Police started receiving reports of a vehicle driving dangerously, with the description matching the vehicle officers were looking for.<\/p>\n
About 10.10am, the vehicle was spotted in Nawton, Hamilton. The Police Eagle helicopter was tasked from Auckland and assisted in locating and tracking the vehicle of interest.<\/p>\n
Two of the occupants were seen being dropped off at a residential property near Waikato Hospital before the vehicle carried on; the pair were arrested a short time later.<\/p>\n
Another two people remained in the vehicle, which was successfully spiked around 11.30am on Bartholomew Drive, before it came to a stop on Sunnyside Road.<\/p>\n
The alleged offenders attempted to flee in a third vehicle but were intercepted by Police and taken into custody.<\/p>\n
An investigation into the incident continues and further charges are likely to follow.<\/p>\n
The victim of the robbery was understandably shaken by the incident and Police would like to thank members of the public who assisted the victim.<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/p>\n
Issued by the Police Media Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attributable to Detective Senior Sergeant Scott Neilson Four people will appear in the Hamilton Youth Court tomorrow on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-214278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214278","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=214278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}