Police located and pursued the vehicle as it travelled towards Foxton, where it was later abandoned on Bergin Rd at around 12.40pm.<\/p>\n
Police dog units and armed staff were deployed to Foxton.<\/p>\n
The man was located and taken into custody in the vicinity of the Foxton Golf Club just before 3.30pm.<\/p>\n
Police are not looking for anybody else in relation to the earlier assault in Whangaehu.<\/p>\n
Acting Manawat\u016b Area Commander Phil Ward thanked members of the public for their cooperation.<\/p>\n
Charges are being considered. <\/p>\n
Earlier, a witness told the Chronicle that a car \u201ccame flying round\u201d the corner of Whales Line, Marton, near the roadworks as she was driving back home to Marton.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was going so fast he became a blur, I could only tell it was a small dark car.\u201d <\/p>\n
It swerved partly onto her side of the road and flicked dirt onto her car, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout 10-20 seconds later, I saw three cops with lights and sirens following.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noam M\u0101nuka Lazarus (Ng\u0101ti Wh\u0101tua o Kaipara) is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chronicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police located and pursued the vehicle as it travelled towards Foxton, where it was later abandoned on Bergin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11924,17704,1558,11728,11928,60238,78,296,7973,3180,111,43,139,69,5270,17286,4056,675,1238,19554,261997],"class_list":["post-530739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-assault","tag-been","tag-critical","tag-custody","tag-foxton","tag-in","tag-into","tag-leaves","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-operation","tag-person","tag-police","tag-serious","tag-taken","tag-whangaehu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530739","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=530739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}