{"id":346096,"date":"2026-03-24T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346096\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:45:08","slug":"police-chase-across-auckland-after-car-stolen-at-gunpoint-ends-in-waikato-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346096\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chase across Auckland after car stolen at gunpoint ends in Waikato crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHe was taken into custody and transported to Waikato<\/a> Hospital in a moderate condition after receiving injuries from a dog bite during his arrest. A search of the vehicle located two handguns and a large amount of live ammunition,” Tetzlaff said of the overnight incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is pleasing that these firearms are now out of circulation in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The driver was first spotted about 11.40pm, when a \u201cvehicle of interest\u201d was seen on Dominion Rd in Sandringham.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis vehicle had been reported stolen at gunpoint earlier in the day from the South Auckland area.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police Eagle helicopter spotted the vehicle as it entered the Southern Motorway at Newmarket, with those on board watching as it travelled towards East T\u0101maki.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe police Eagle helicopter was involved in efforts to catch the driver. <\/p>\n

When the driver exited the motorway onto East T\u0101maki Rd, police officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but it \u201ctook off at speed\u201d, Tetzlaff said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe driver was seen driving in a dangerous manner through South Auckland, turning off its lights and reaching high speeds on residential streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

After re-entering the motorway at State Highway 20, the driver travelled south towards Te Kauwhata, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice units were able to spike the vehicle, and it continued for a short distance before losing control and crashing into wire median dividers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The arrested man would face charges of failing to stop, reckless driving, receiving, possession of firearms and resisting arrest, Tetzlaff said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice are continuing to make inquiries into the initial stolen vehicle report, and we cannot rule out further charges in that matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs standard procedure, the Independent Police Conduct Authority will be notified of the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe was taken into custody and transported to Waikato Hospital in a moderate condition after receiving injuries from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,74,1975,51,9218,3944,9436,3549,118977,19552,4189,4726,7813,71,62264,305,2959,78,25140,111,43,139,69,6507,675,13608,15267,15508,3048,20489,4736,5412,25809,6845,6861,1524],"class_list":["post-346096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-after","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-before","tag-car","tag-chase","tag-crash","tag-dangerously","tag-driver","tag-driving","tag-ends","tag-fled","tag-from","tag-gunpoint","tag-have","tag-high","tag-in","tag-lights","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-police","tag-reaching","tag-reported","tag-residential","tag-said","tag-speeds","tag-stolen","tag-streets","tag-turning","tag-vehicle","tag-vehicles","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346096","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=346096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}