{"id":35795,"date":"2025-09-22T00:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35795\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T00:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:51:07","slug":"alleged-motorcycle-thief-nabbed-after-falling-off-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35795\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged motorcycle thief nabbed after falling off bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A person has been taken into custody in Auckland after allegedly stealing a motorbike, driving at speed and into oncoming traffic, before falling off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Auckland Police Inspector Kerry Watson said Police received a report at 7.25am that a motorcycle was taken from an address on New Lynn&#8217;s Tiki St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Units patrolling Avondale sighted the bike on Granville Drive a short time later,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Upon seeing police, the rider took off at speed. Police chose not to pursue, but the Eagle helicopter followed at a distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;The rider has sped across Auckland at dangerous speeds, at times crossing over onto the wrong side of the road and into oncoming traffic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A short time later, the rider fell off the bike and was arrested. Charges were likely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Watson said there were no reports of injuries or crashes in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including Liam Lawson\u2019s best result, recognition for a Palestinian state, and the best view of today\u2019s partial solar eclipse. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has been taken into custody in Auckland after allegedly stealing a motorbike, driving at speed and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-35795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35795","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=35795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}