{"id":550393,"date":"2026-07-30T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/550393\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:23:11","slug":"man-arrested-in-beachlands-after-volkswagen-stolen-at-gunpoint-in-onehunga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/550393\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Beachlands after Volkswagen stolen at gunpoint in Onehunga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMotorway cameras tracked the Volkswagen as it travelled through Highbrook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWith the assistance of Eagle [the police helicopter], the stolen vehicle and the offender were located in Beachlands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">A 20-year-old man was arrested without incident, with a firearm subsequently located in the vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCharges are pending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">The most direct route between Onehunga and Beachlands is 29km in length, with travel times varying between 30 minutes to an hour, depending on the time of day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMotorway cameras tracked the Volkswagen as it travelled through Highbrook. \u201cWith the assistance of Eagle [the police helicopter],&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[128613,2840,74,7818,11924,1975,186411,1558,9218,2199,15226,15037,62264,42,78,5158,59919,11692,43,31779,4744,4736,165,18937,40,38,41,39,19835,102],"class_list":["post-550393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-30km","tag-across","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-arrested","tag-at","tag-beachlands","tag-been","tag-before","tag-city","tag-firearm","tag-fleeing","tag-gunpoint","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-man","tag-motorist","tag-nearly","tag-news","tag-onehunga","tag-stealing","tag-stolen","tag-their","tag-threatened","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-volkswagen","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550393","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=550393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}