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\u201cStaff have then quickly taken him into custody. However, a search has located bags of cannabis and methamphetamine, along with an amount of cash.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man was now facing a range of charges, including dangerous driving, possession of methamphetamine for supply and possession of cannabis, Cornish said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnsafe and illegal dirt bike riding activity poses a significant risk to not only themselves, but members of the public going about their business.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice<\/a> will continue to respond and hold these offenders to account for this type of dangerous activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man was due to appear in Manukau District Court on Friday next week, Cornish said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cStaff have then quickly taken him into custody. However, a search has located bags of cannabis and methamphetamine,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7818,95,29953,21933,9218,1070,17285,6932,1873,1069,6383,4189,20106,3401,6119,1874,15264,671,6804,13240,12638,111,43,139,69,23421,675,1071,5659,11929,25093,157378,33913,3946,157377,540],"class_list":["post-281267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-allegedly","tag-and","tag-arresting","tag-bags","tag-before","tag-bike","tag-cannabis","tag-cash","tag-charges","tag-dirt","tag-driveway","tag-driving","tag-drove","tag-drug","tag-faces","tag-found","tag-impounded","tag-incident","tag-light","tag-methamphetamine","tag-motorbike","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-rider","tag-say","tag-searching","tag-speed","tag-stalling","tag-tara","tag-traffic","tag-weaved","tag-where"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281267","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=281267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}