{"id":558290,"date":"2026-08-04T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558290\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:10:10","slug":"driver-of-stolen-car-allegedly-tried-to-hit-officer-laying-spikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558290\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver of stolen car allegedly tried to hit officer laying spikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Four youths were taken into custody after the driver of a stolen vehicle &#8220;appeared to attempt to run down an officer&#8221; setting up road spikes in Auckland last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The police Eagle helicopter located a stolen Toyota Aqua driving through East Tamaki last night at about 11pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Inspector Rod Honon said staff alerted officers on the ground who began setting up spikes in \u014ctara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;As the vehicle approached this intersection near Bairds Road and Waipapa Crescent the driver drove across Bairds Road, mounted the berm and appears to have attempted to run down an officer setting up spikes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He said it was &#8220;incredibly lucky&#8221; the officer managed to get out of the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Reckless acts like this will not be tolerated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Honan said the vehicle then continued onto the Southern Motorway at &#8220;excessive speed and with no lights on&#8221;, before getting off at Papakura and being successfully spiked on Dominion Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Four youths, aged 13-15, were taken into custody and referred to Youth Aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including a cold snap closes roads, mothers plead for help to save stranded sons, and Ariana Grande\u2019s big decision. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four youths were taken into custody after the driver of a stolen vehicle &#8220;appeared to attempt to run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-558290","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\/558290","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=558290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}