{"id":503983,"date":"2026-07-01T05:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503983\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:34:12","slug":"night-of-alleged-car-thefts-ends-with-spiked-tyres-in-far-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503983\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of alleged car thefts ends with spiked tyres in Far North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">A police patrol unit soon identified the stolen vehicle  on State Highway 12, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/news\/the-northland-town-where-the-drug-methamphetamine-is-an-epidemic\/TQJHU7KJBJB7NHRLGXFA4KD7YA\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/news\/the-northland-town-where-the-drug-methamphetamine-is-an-epidemic\/TQJHU7KJBJB7NHRLGXFA4KD7YA\/\">west of Kaikohe<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Officers deployed spikes on SH12 to stop the car, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWith three tyres deflated, the vehicle came to a stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe driver and three passengers were arrested and taken into custody,\u201d Fagan said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">A large knife was allegedly found in the vehicle, he said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Vehicles were stolen from resident streets in Kaikohe and Kerikeri, pictured. Photo \/ Jenny Ling\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Vehicles were stolen from resident streets in Kaikohe and Kerikeri, pictured. Photo \/ Jenny Ling<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Fagan was full of praise for the skill, teamwork and commitment of the police staff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is a fantastic result,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Four males aged between 12 and 16 will be referred to Youth Aid, Fagan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/denise-piper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denise Piper is a news reporter<\/a> for the Northern Advocate, focusing on health and business. She has more than 20 years in journalism and is passionate about covering stories that make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police patrol unit soon identified the stolen vehicle on State Highway 12, west of Kaikohe. Officers deployed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1554,3944,8532,4726,528,3011,42,78,43,2551,529,1067,1118,675,21529,5659,43970,46870,40,38,41,39,43971,102,678],"class_list":["post-503983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alleged","tag-car","tag-ended","tag-ends","tag-far","tag-four","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-news","tag-night","tag-north","tag-northland","tag-of","tag-police","tag-ride","tag-say","tag-spiked","tag-thefts","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tyres","tag-with","tag-youths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503983","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=503983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}