{"id":267003,"date":"2026-02-04T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267003\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:26:08","slug":"hutt-river-chase-man-arrested-after-jumping-into-river-to-flee-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267003\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutt River chase: Man arrested after jumping into river to flee police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>4 Feb, 2026 06:54 AMQuick 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\">The man tried to evade police by jumping into the Hutt River. Photo \/ RNZ, Emma Hatton<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man will appear in the Hutt Valley District Court in Wellington after attempting to evade police officers by jumping into the Hutt River today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A witness took to social media to describe seeing the man on a bicycle being pursued<br \/>\n         by police on the eastern side of the river near Ewen Bridge.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">They said the man dumped the bicycle, ran into the water, and attempted to cross the river, which was running swiftly at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed officers were called to a store in High St at 1.33pm and they arrested a 36-year-old man shortly after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 4 Feb, 2026 06:54 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,11924,16574,9436,133943,42,80603,49947,296,48746,5158,43,675,6739,61,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-267003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-bill","tag-chase","tag-flee","tag-headlines","tag-hickman","tag-hutt","tag-into","tag-jumping","tag-man","tag-news","tag-police","tag-river","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267003","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=267003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}