A 15-year-old boy has been charged after falling from an electric trail bike he’d allegedly stolen at knifepoint on Auckland’s North Shore.<\/p>\n
Video provided to Seven Sharp showed the rider hurtling along a footpath and onto a residential street before coming to grief and being taken into police custody. The e-bike was then hauled away on the back of a truck.<\/p>\n
The wild and dangerous escapade began when a teenage boy was approached by another teen outside a fast food restaurant on Coliseum Dr in Albany at aound 7.40pm on Tuesday, Inspector Aron McKeown said. <\/p>\n
The second teenager allegedly took the victim’s electric trail bike at knifepoint before riding across the car park towards Westfield Albany and “out of sight”.<\/p>\n
McKeown said the Police Eagle helicopter happened to be in the area when the crew was alerted to the incident.<\/p>\n
“Eagle responded and located the bike being driven at excessive speed on the Northern Busway,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The bike has continued to be tracked by Eagle, as it exited at Constellation Station, making its way onto the Northern Motorway.”<\/p>\n
The bike was not pursued but the helicopter continued to monitor the teenager’s movements from above.<\/p>\n
The teenager was seen leaving Tristram Ave and cutting through a football game on Becroft Park before heading towards Milford. <\/p>\n
“This reckless run came to an end after he fell off the bike on Bevyn St,” McKeown said. <\/p>\n
“The 15-year-old didn\u2019t suffer any injuries, but he did find himself in handcuffs and under arrest.”<\/p>\n
The teenager was due to appear in the North Shore Youth Court today charged with aggravated robbery, reckless driving, and possession for supply of cannabis.<\/p>\n
“We are ensuring the young victim is being provided by support after this unsettling event,” McKeown said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy has been charged after falling from an electric trail bike he’d allegedly stolen at knifepoint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-279314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279314","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=279314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}