{"id":421724,"date":"2026-05-11T04:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/421724\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:26:09","slug":"big-police-chase-across-auckland-suburbs-dramatic-arrest-of-pair-in-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/421724\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big police chase\u2019 across Auckland suburbs, dramatic arrest of pair in CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cFurther enquiries revealed the vehicle was recently reported stolen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police Eagle helicopter has been able to locate the vehicle quickly and monitor its movements as it travelled through Mount Albert and Grey Lynn.<\/p>\n
\u201cA police pursuit was initiated given the driver\u2019s reckless actions, including excessive speed and driving on the wrong side of the road on multiple occasions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The police chase across Auckland concluded on Nelson St. Photo \/ Anna Heath<\/p>\n
A witness told the Herald they were cut off by a car during a \u201cbig police chase\u201d, which included the police helicopter, at lunchtime.<\/p>\n
They claimed the fleeing driver was seen to be clocking speeds well above the limit and cutting off drivers as it evaded police. <\/p>\n
Limrick said the vehicle was spiked but continued on travelling through the city until coming to a stop in traffic on Nelson St.<\/p>\n
Two people were arrested following the police chase. Photo \/ Anna Heath<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice were able to block the vehicle in and two people were quickly taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s extremely lucky that the dangerous behaviour of these people didn\u2019t result in anyone suffering serious injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charges were now being considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFurther enquiries revealed the vehicle was recently reported stolen. \u201cThe police Eagle helicopter has been able to locate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2840,14466,51,1558,8834,31426,9436,11928,18089,5504,305,42,78,296,216515,43,1118,13792,384,675,21047,19554,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-421724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-across","tag-arrest","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-big","tag-cbd","tag-chase","tag-custody","tag-dramatic","tag-following","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-into","tag-lunchtime","tag-news","tag-of","tag-pair","tag-people","tag-police","tag-suburbs","tag-taken","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421724","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=421724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}