Police are appealing for dashcam footage after a gang member allegedly carjacked a vehicle and drove for more than 5km on the wrong side of the road near Taup\u014d this morning. <\/p>\n
Bay of Plenty Area Commander Inspector Phil Edwards said police attempted to stop a vehicle in T\u016brangi on Monday morning over suspicious behaviour.<\/p>\n
The driver fled and headed north towards Taup\u014d.<\/p>\n
Edwards said police deployed road spikes near Waitahanui Bridge on State Highway 1, disabling the vehicle.<\/p>\n
“The man decamped, then approached a commercial vehicle. He pulled the occupant \u2013 who was uninjured \u2013 from the driver\u2019s seat and fled again, first toward Taup\u014d airport then along State Highway 5,” he said. <\/p>\n
“He exceeded speeds of more than 130km and regularly drove on the wrong side of the road.<\/p>\n
“In one instance, he travelled more that 5.5km on the wrong side of the road.”<\/p>\n
Edwards said police units from Taup\u014d and Hawke\u2019s Bay responded and the second vehicle was spiked approximately 9km south of Pohokura on State Highway 5. <\/p>\n
“The man was taken into custody just before 10am.” <\/p>\n
Police were asking motorists who were travelling between T\u016brangi on State Highway 1 and Pohokura on State Highway 5 between 8.50am and 10am to check whether they had dashcam footage of the incident.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information or footage was asked to contact police through 105, using reference number 260817\/5917.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for dashcam footage after a gang member allegedly carjacked a vehicle and drove for more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-571755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571755","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=571755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}