{"id":253484,"date":"2026-01-27T03:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/253484\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:32:09","slug":"avoid-the-area-armed-police-search-for-driver-who-fled-stolen-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/253484\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Avoid the area&#8217;: Armed police search for driver who fled stolen vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4LDWYGN_MicrosoftTeams_image_55_png\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Police in Wellington. Generic image\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Angus Dreaver\n<\/p>\n<p>A cordon is up and armed police are in the suburb of Awapuni in Palmerston North while armed officers search for person who fled police after their vehicle&#8217;s tyres were spiked.<\/p>\n<p>The police said they were told about a stolen vehicle on Main Street, Roslyn, at about midday.<\/p>\n<p>It was spotted on a nearby street and officers watched the vehicle before deploying road spikes.<\/p>\n<p>The driver then fled on foot, and police are trying to find them.<\/p>\n<p>A gun was found in the abandoned vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>A cordon is up on Alexander Street, and the public is being asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Angus Dreaver A cordon is up and armed police are in the suburb of Awapuni&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-253484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253484","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=253484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}