{"id":264843,"date":"2026-02-03T03:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264843\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:09:08","slug":"police-carry-out-armed-traffic-stop-after-dramatic-car-chase-in-northland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264843\/","title":{"rendered":"Police carry out armed traffic stop after dramatic car chase in Northland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was also reported that weapons may have been presented at the victim,\u201d Fouhy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">Several units responded, and the pursuing vehicle was spiked near Taipa \u2013 almost 40km from K\u0101eo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnits carried out an armed traffic stop, taking the three males in the vehicle into custody without further incident,\u201d Fouhy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">Police are investigating and charges would be laid, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">Brodie Stone covers crime and emergency for the Northern Advocate. She has spent most of her life in Whang\u0101rei and is passionate about delving into issues that matter to Northlanders and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was also reported that weapons may have been presented at the victim,\u201d Fouhy said. Several units responded,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7814,3944,46729,9436,18089,4636,2219,78,6214,111,43,139,529,1067,69,3111,675,1324,3946,1648,20881,25152],"class_list":["post-264843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-armed","tag-car","tag-carry","tag-chase","tag-dramatic","tag-facebook","tag-gone","tag-in","tag-marketplace","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-police","tag-stop","tag-traffic","tag-transaction","tag-triggered","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264843","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=264843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}