A teenager has been arrested in Auckland after allegedly livestreaming himself doing burnouts while brandishing a machete.<\/p>\n
Police say the 18-year-old came to their attention on Sunday night after a member of the public saw the livestream and reported it.<\/p>\n
The man was allegedly doing burnouts in the Titirangi town centre, in west Auckland, and streaming it live on the social media platform TikTok.<\/p>\n
Police say his BMW was spotted shortly after and ordered to stop.<\/p>\n
Senior Sergeant Jon Winthrop said when officers went to speak with the car’s occupants “they were met by the unmistakable smell of cannabis.”<\/p>\n
He said a search located over 100 grams of cannabis packaged into bags and 18 capsules of cannabis oil.<\/p>\n
The machete allegedly shown in the livestream was also found, as well as a 30cm-long knife.<\/p>\n
The driver was arrested and taken into custody and found to be holding a “significant” quantity of cash.<\/p>\n
He was charged with possessing offensive weapons and possessing cannabis and cannabis oil for supply.<\/p>\n
“This was a dangerous, attention-seeking stunt that revealed deeper levels of offending,” Winthrop said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has been arrested in Auckland after allegedly livestreaming himself doing burnouts while brandishing a machete. Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-546326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546326","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=546326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}