{"id":345469,"date":"2026-03-24T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345469\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:44:15","slug":"motorcyclists-hour-long-dash-from-police-sees-bike-on-wrong-side-of-road-dangerous-overtaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345469\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist\u2019s hour-long dash from police sees bike on wrong side of road, \u2018dangerous\u2019 overtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Those in the police helicopter then saw the motorbike arrive at a Berwyn Ave address in Takanini, with the rider trying to hide from police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">When officers on the ground attempted to take the man into custody, the 30-year-old tried to flee, assaulting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/police\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/police\/\">police officer <\/a>in the process, Hoyes said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">A Taser was used and the man taken into custody \u201cwithout further incident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">A bag the man had been carrying was also found, with drug utensils discovered inside, Hoyes said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The man will appear in the Papakura District Court today, charged with failing to stop, assaulting police, possessing methamphetamine utensils and dangerous driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those in the police helicopter then saw the motorbike arrive at a Berwyn Ave address in Takanini, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,432,74,51,1070,1349,8452,11544,148065,9881,71,163899,184060,12638,182659,111,43,139,69,1118,90,184059,675,1071,31124,1314,29647,6102,1240,14005,25152],"class_list":["post-345469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-action","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-bike","tag-court","tag-dangerous","tag-dash","tag-executing","tag-facing","tag-from","tag-hourlong","tag-manoeuvres","tag-motorbike","tag-motorcyclists","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-overtaking","tag-police","tag-rider","tag-riding","tag-road","tag-sees","tag-side","tag-south","tag-times","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345469","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=345469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}