{"id":538186,"date":"2026-07-22T07:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538186\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:20:17","slug":"young-people-arrested-in-auckland-after-high-speed-chase-in-stolen-car-across-motorways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538186\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people arrested in Auckland after high-speed chase in stolen car across motorways"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a call was made to the car\u2019s registered owner, it was discovered the Corolla had been stolen from Titirangi earlier in the evening. <\/p>\n

\u201cMotorway cameras and Eagle [helicopter] kept observations on the vehicle as it travelled across the motorway network at high speeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpikes were deployed as the vehicle left State Highway 1 near Bombay,\u201d Matthews said. <\/p>\n

The vehicle continued to move south, before coming to a stop on the Waikato Expressway. <\/p>\n

The three young people inside the vehicle were taken into custody. <\/p>\n

Matthews said the group involved in the late-night incident put everyone on the road at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a dangerous display of driving across Auckland\u2019s motorways, and it\u2019s lucky it did not result in harm to the vehicle\u2019s occupants or innocent members of the public,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

A 15-year-old boy was expected to appear in Auckland Youth Court today, charged with unlawfully taking a motor vehicle and failing to stop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a call was made to the car\u2019s registered owner, it was discovered the Corolla had been stolen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,74,7818,11924,51,3952,3944,209629,9436,11928,8452,4189,20486,78,296,3945,98401,3805,111,43,139,2551,69,384,675,4736,19554,154295,3608,4741],"class_list":["post-538186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-arrested","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-car","tag-carload","tag-chase","tag-custody","tag-dangerous","tag-driving","tag-highspeed","tag-in","tag-into","tag-motorway","tag-motorways","tag-network","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-police","tag-stolen","tag-taken","tag-tearing","tag-were","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538186","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=538186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}