{"id":425446,"date":"2026-05-13T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/425446\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:36:09","slug":"hamilton-police-spike-car-after-report-of-suspected-knifepoint-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/425446\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton police spike car after report of suspected knifepoint incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Police deployed tyre deflation devices to slow the vehicle, which drove down a one-way street in Nawton and finally came to a stop. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">The four occupants of the vehicle fled but were quickly apprehended by police units on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Miller said police inquiries found the youths were \u201call known to each other\u201d and there was no threat of violence made to anyone inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">The vehicle was driven by the registered owner\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Miller said the youths were \u201clucky\u201d no serious injuries occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are particularly thankful to members of the public for reporting this suspicious behaviour that ensured we were alerted and no further harm was caused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">The four youths have been referred to Youth Aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police deployed tyre deflation devices to slow the vehicle, which drove down a one-way street in Nawton and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,15442,218177,1558,3944,19552,3011,6288,305,28162,671,73646,111,43,139,69,1118,14734,384,675,19764,1560,766,2441,8841,1524,4741],"class_list":["post-425446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-appearing","tag-apprehended","tag-been","tag-car","tag-driver","tag-four","tag-hamilton","tag-have","tag-hold","tag-incident","tag-knifepoint","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-passenger","tag-people","tag-police","tag-received","tag-report","tag-reports","tag-spike","tag-suspected","tag-waikato","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425446","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=425446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}