{"id":40180,"date":"2025-09-24T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40180\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:04:09","slug":"police-seek-dirtbikers-accused-of-endangering-public-scaring-livestock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40180\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek dirtbikers accused of endangering public, scaring livestock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are seeking information about a group of dirtbikers accused of damaging fences and native trees, endangering the public and scaring farm animals. <\/p>\n<p>Porirua police are looking for the group of five who regularly ride dirt bikes from Waitangirua or Cannons Creek, across iwi land, into Belmont Park and then Belmont Farm.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the group has been responsible for causing damage to multiple fences and newly planted native trees.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/their-behaviour-on-the-bikes-is-endangering-the-public-ERMM57ISMRA7FKS5VMZKMZN7AU.jpg\" alt=\"Dirtbike tracks near Belmont Park. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Dirtbike tracks near Belmont Park.  (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>They were also putting families using the park, road users and workers at risk, and terrifying livestock, including sheep that are currently lambing.<\/p>\n<p>The public is asked to contact police if they see the group or have any information. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including Donald Trump\u2019s climate denial at the UN, more popular food products recalled, and Emmanuel Macron\u2019s unexpected walk. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are seeking information about a group of dirtbikers accused of damaging fences and native trees, endangering the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-40180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-wellington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40180","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=40180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}