A man has been arrested following an alleged aggravated robbery in Auckland’s Onehunga early this morning.<\/p>\n
Police said the victim was approached on State Ave at around 6.10am on Thursday by an offender allegedly carrying a firearm, who demanded the keys to their black Volkswagen.<\/p>\n
The offender then fled the scene in the stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n
“Thankfully, the victim was not injured,” said Detective Senior Sergeant Rebecca Kirk. <\/p>\n
Kirk said the stolen vehicle was tracked by motorway cameras as it travelled through Highbrook. <\/p>\n
“With the assistance of Eagle, the stolen vehicle and the offender were located in Beachlands,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Beachlands is an outer suburb of Auckland and is located around 30km from Onehunga. <\/p>\n
A 20-year-old man was arrested without incident.<\/p>\n
Police said a firearm was recovered during a search of the stolen vehicle, and charges were pending. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested following an alleged aggravated robbery in Auckland’s Onehunga early this morning. Police said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-550590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550590","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=550590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}