A man has been remanded in in custody after a family’s golden retriever was struck and killed by a driver who allegedly sped towards people in Silverdale before running the dog over.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old appeared in the North Shore District Court this morning charged with unlawful intimidation, driving while disqualified, reckless driving and reckless ill-treatment of an animal. <\/p>\n
He will reappear in December.<\/p>\n
Police were called to Croix Greens about 4.50pm on July 30 after reports a speeding driver had driven at people who had signalled for him to slow down. <\/p>\n
The female dog was spooked, ran into the road, and the vehicle accelerated towards her.<\/p>\n
Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Jimmy Kim said the incident had prompted online discussion in the community.<\/p>\n
“We are aware the community has been talking about this incident online and naming the alleged offender,” he said. <\/p>\n
“We want to reassure the public we have investigated the incident, and earlier today we arrested a 52-year-old man.”<\/p>\n
Kim said police were mindful of those affected.<\/p>\n
“Police acknowledge the effect this incident has had on the Whangapar\u0101oa Community, particular those who witnessed the events,” he said. <\/p>\n
“However, we want to ask that now the matter is going through court please avoid speculating and discussing the incident, and the alleged offender, online and in public forums.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been remanded in in custody after a family’s golden retriever was struck and killed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-568814","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\/568814","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=568814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}