Waikato western area commander Inspector Andrew Mortimore said yesterday\u2019s call gave police a head start.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the time the suspect finished filling the drum and a container on his ute, units had closed in, and others waiting on nearby roads.\u201d<\/p>\n
The driver took off towards Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia when a police pursuit was initiated and the ute\u2019s front tyres were spiked.<\/p>\n
Police said the man drove his ute with \u201cthen-rubberless\u201d wheels along Waingaro Rd before he lost control and came to a stop in a ditch.<\/p>\n
The driver took off on foot, but a police dog sniffed him out and he was taken into custody and treated for a minor dog bite. <\/p>\n
An associate of the man remained in the ute and was arrested.<\/p>\n
A 32-year-old Chartwell man has been charged with burglary, driving while suspended, failing to stop, and dangerous driving, alongside a 28-year-old Chartwell woman who has also been charged with burglary.<\/p>\n
They were due to appear in Hamilton District Court today.<\/p>\n
Inquiries are ongoing into whether there is any link to the area\u2019s wider offending. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis arrest is a great result. This isn\u2019t the first time this property has been hit and it causes a heap of pain and inconvenience, not to mention expense,\u201d Mortimore said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe person watching all this unfold did everything right \u2013 they called 111 straight off the bat and provided really helpful information. That gave us a head start, and we got units rolling towards the property.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waikato western area commander Inspector Andrew Mortimore said yesterday\u2019s call gave police a head start. \u201cBy the time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[78777,74,1558,9436,3088,54239,71,6288,29819,65989,130,3180,111,43,139,69,1118,675,814,198867,22430,8214,45608,82789,4736,14931,131,8229,43971,698,1524,3608],"class_list":{"0":"post-382796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-78777","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-been","11":"tag-chase","12":"tag-commercial","13":"tag-diesel","14":"tag-from","15":"tag-hamilton","16":"tag-involving","17":"tag-litres","18":"tag-more","19":"tag-near","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-of","25":"tag-police","26":"tag-property","27":"tag-rubberless","28":"tag-siphoned","29":"tag-sparked","30":"tag-sparking","31":"tag-spiking","32":"tag-stolen","33":"tag-tank","34":"tag-than","35":"tag-they","36":"tag-tyres","37":"tag-until","38":"tag-waikato","39":"tag-were"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382796","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=382796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}