{"id":399359,"date":"2026-04-27T04:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399359\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:27:08","slug":"two-men-charged-after-motorists-in-northland-and-waitemata-allegedly-followed-threatened-with-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399359\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men charged after motorists in Northland and Waitemat\u0101 allegedly followed, threatened with firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"
The alleged offenders are aged 46 and 30 from Bay of Plenty and Northland.<\/p>\n
They are due to appear in the North Shore District Court on May 4 on charges including intentional damage, dangerous driving, possession of methamphetamine for supply, and committing an imprisonable offence with a weapon.<\/p>\n
Police are not ruling out that there may be other victims from similar incidents on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to hear from anyone who believes they may have been targeted in a similar way, such as being followed, forced to stop or threatened with a firearm on April 25 in the Northland or Waitemat\u0101 area,\u201d Bergin said.<\/p>\n
Two separate incidents of motorists being threatened with a firearm happened on Saturday, April 25, in Northland and Waitemat\u0101. Photo \/ 123rf<\/p>\n
Police are also working to determine whether the reports are linked to a firearm found in the Mangawhai area on April 25 and handed into police by a member of the public.<\/p>\n
Bergin said police won\u2019t tolerate \u201cintimidating and violent offending\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you can assist our inquiries, please get in touch with us as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about these incidents has been asked to make a report online at 105.police.govt.nz, clicking \u201cUpdate report\u201d, or by calling 105, with the reference number 260425\/4175.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alleged offenders are aged 46 and 30 from Bay of Plenty and Northland. They are due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7818,95,11924,1558,13239,15226,60044,305,78,3605,51720,111,43,139,1067,69,75000,2846,18937,12419,1237,114941,102],"class_list":["post-399359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-and","tag-arrested","tag-been","tag-charged","tag-firearm","tag-followed","tag-have","tag-in","tag-men","tag-motorists","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-stopping","tag-them","tag-threatened","tag-threatening","tag-two","tag-waitemat","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399359","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=399359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}