{"id":573998,"date":"2026-08-19T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573998\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:50:12","slug":"wellington-waterfront-stolen-dirt-bike-joyride-man-arrested-after-crashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573998\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington waterfront stolen dirt bike \u2018joyride\u2019: Man arrested after crashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Wellington police arrested a man after an inner-city waterfront \u201cjoyride\u201d on a $22,000 stolen dirt bike. Photo \/ Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Wellington police arrested a man after an inner-city waterfront \u201cjoyride\u201d on a $22,000 stolen dirt bike. Photo \/ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The officer chased the man and caught him on Customhouse Quay with help from the Wellington police beat team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Inspector Paul Hamlyn said it was fortunate no one was injured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWere it not for the quick actions of the officer, this could have turned out worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Hamlyn said the $22,000 motorcycle had been stolen, and police would  return it to its owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">A 31-year-old is due to appear at Wellington District Court on August 24 on charges of unlawfully getting on a motorcycle, driving in a dangerous manner, and failing to stop when required. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wellington police arrested a man after an inner-city waterfront \u201cjoyride\u201d on a $22,000 stolen dirt bike. Photo \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11924,1070,1349,20496,1069,15902,87362,5158,111,43,139,69,4736,42580,52],"class_list":["post-573998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-bike","tag-court","tag-crashing","tag-dirt","tag-innercity","tag-joyride","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stolen","tag-waterfront","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573998","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=573998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}