{"id":423956,"date":"2026-05-12T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423956\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:35:10","slug":"hamilton-dirt-bike-riders-1-arrest-as-police-hunt-more-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423956\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton dirt bike riders: 1 arrest as police hunt more offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>12 May, 2026 06:23 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has been arrested, and police are on the hunt for more after \u201cantisocial\u201d dirt bike riders took over Hamilton roads at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Waikato police said they received multiple calls on Saturday after riders reportedly cut across sports fields and took over intersections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Senior Sergeant Aimee Whitley confirmed<br \/>\n         one person was arrested and referred to Youth Aid, but said police needed the public\u2019s help to find others involved.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhile we acknowledge it can be challenging to identify offenders when they are riding in groups or wearing face coverings, we will continue to investigate all information provided to us in order to hold these people accountable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 12 May, 2026 06:23 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,86498,14466,11924,806,1558,1070,1069,6288,42,10937,130,43,15222,1523,4056,675,1076,20383,6382,40,38,41,39,4767],"class_list":["post-423956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-antisocial","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-as","tag-been","tag-bike","tag-dirt","tag-hamilton","tag-headlines","tag-hunt","tag-more","tag-news","tag-offenders","tag-over","tag-person","tag-police","tag-riders","tag-roads","tag-took","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423956","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=423956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}