{"id":303121,"date":"2026-02-26T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/303121\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:01:09","slug":"police-charge-46-year-old-man-after-manhunt-in-dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/303121\/","title":{"rendered":"Police charge 46-year-old man after manhunt in Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">He is due to appear in the Dunedin District Court tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAn investigation into the events of Wednesday evening remains ongoing,\u201d Guthrie said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Officers located the 46-year-old man at a petrol station on Kaikorai Valley Rd and attempted to take him into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">However, the man drove his vehicle towards the patrol car and officers in an effort to avoid arrest.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police say an investigation into the events of Wednesday evening remains ongoing. Photo \/ Ben Tomsett\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police say an investigation into the events of Wednesday evening remains ongoing. Photo \/ Ben Tomsett<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Police fired a shot, but no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">The man then fled the area in the vehicle, which was later located in Brockville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Road spikes were successfully deployed and the man then escaped on foot into the bush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">He was eventually apprehended by a police dog team in the Fraser\u2019s Gully area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He is due to appear in the Dunedin District Court tomorrow. \u201cAn investigation into the events of Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[166157,74,32294,13239,6788,305,78,5158,22475,111,43,139,69,675,210,11587],"class_list":["post-303121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-46yearold","tag-after","tag-charge","tag-charged","tag-dunedin","tag-have","tag-in","tag-man","tag-manhunt","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-through","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303121","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=303121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}