Two people are in custody after a fleeing driver incident continued across several central Auckland suburbs before ending in a dramatic arrest in the CBD this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police first observed a vehicle travelling through Ponsonby without a front number plate about 12.25pm on Monday.<\/p>\n
Acting Inspector Matt Limrick said officers signalled for the driver to stop, but the vehicle continued along Great North Rd.<\/p>\n
Two people are in custody after a fleeing driver incident continued across several central Auckland suburbs before ending in a dramatic arrest in the CBD. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
\u201cFurther enquiries revealed the vehicle was also recently reported stolen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The police Eagle helicopter located the vehicle and monitored its movements as it travelled through Mt Albert and Grey Lynn.<\/p>\n
Limrick said a 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”.<\/p>\n
The tyres on the vehicle were spiked, but it continued through the CBD until coming to a stop in traffic on Nelson St. Footage captured by 1News shows officers arresting the pair, near the intersection with Victoria St West, about 1.30pm.<\/p>\n
At least 10 police vehicles, along with dog units, responded to the incident.<\/p>\n
Limrick said police were able to block the vehicle in and arrest the occupants without incident.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s extremely lucky that the dangerous behaviour of these people didn\u2019t result in anyone suffering serious injuries.”<\/p>\n
Charges were being considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are in custody after a fleeing driver incident continued across several central Auckland suburbs before ending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-421760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421760","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=421760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}