{"id":504366,"date":"2026-07-01T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504366\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:59:13","slug":"hamilton-police-arrest-33-year-old-after-dirt-bike-crash-foot-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504366\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton police arrest 33-year-old after dirt bike crash, foot chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Police said a foot chase stretched from Ulster St to Te Rapa Straight, with members of the public helping point officers towards the rider before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">A 33-year-old man was arrested and appeared in Hamilton District Court today, facing charges of dangerous driving and failing to stop or ascertain injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the bike was reported to be stolen from Pokuru, in the Waip\u0101 District, and has been impounded for 28 days. Further inquiries will be made to confirm its ownership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Police said anyone who sees dangerous driving should call 111 immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said a foot chase stretched from Ulster St to Te Rapa Straight, with members of the public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5833,74,7818,14466,11924,1070,1853,9436,3549,1069,6541,71,6288,305,42,43,675,1071,1439,40,38,41,39,1524,11587],"class_list":["post-504366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-33yearold","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-bike","tag-central","tag-chase","tag-crash","tag-dirt","tag-foot","tag-from","tag-hamilton","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-police","tag-rider","tag-scene","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-waikato","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504366","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=504366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}