{"id":40785,"date":"2025-09-24T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40785\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:09:18","slug":"illegal-dirt-bike-riders-terrify-livestock-tear-through-native-trees-porirua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40785\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal dirt bike riders terrify livestock, tear through native trees Porirua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4K0KXTQ_ope1_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Police say the dirt bike riders have been damaging fences.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice say the dirt bike riders have been damaging fences.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ NZ Police\n<\/p>\n<p>Porirua police say they are seeking information on a group of illegal dirt bike riders who have been terrifying livestock and damaging newly planted native trees.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the group of five males regularly rode dirt bikes from Waitangirua or Cannons Creek, across iwi land, into Belmont Park and then Belmont Farm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their behaviour on the bikes is endangering the public, including families using the park, road users and workers in the park,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are also terrifying livestock, including sheep that are currently lambing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4K0KXPE_ope2_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Police say the dirt bike riders have been damaging land.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice say the dirt bike riders have been damaging land.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ NZ Police\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said the group had also been responsible for causing damage to multiple fences and newly planted native trees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you witness these activities or have information that can assist Police, please call 111 if it is happening now, or make a report via 105 if it is after the fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police asked people quote file number 250718\/6415.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say the dirt bike riders have been damaging fences. Photo: Supplied \/ NZ Police Porirua police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-40785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40785","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=40785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}