A stolen car parked on yellow lines in West Auckland has led police to a man hiding under a bed and a modified shotgun stashed in a guitar case, with two people now due to face court.<\/p>\n
On Sunday morning, a police unit spotted the vehicle parked on Hill Cres in New Lynn, and checks showed it had been reported stolen in August.<\/p>\n
Acting Inspector Nick Salter said further enquiries revealed the number plates had been changed, and the person linked to those plates was wanted for a bail breach.<\/p>\n
“Officers searched the vehicle and have then found several documents in relation to another woman who had a warrant to arrest,” Salter said.<\/p>\n
“A short time later officers made enquiries at a nearby address and a search of the property was undertaken.”<\/p>\n
Salter said officers found a man hiding under a bed.<\/p>\n
“He was quickly taken into custody without incident,” he said.<\/p>\n
“A further search also located a modified single hand grip 12-gauge shotgun inside a guitar case, as well as live ammunition shells.”<\/p>\n
Salter said the find had taken another weapon off the street.<\/p>\n
“Now we have another firearm taken out of circulation and two offenders to face court,” he said. <\/p>\n
“Police work hard to hold offenders to account, especially those with the potential to cause serious harm in our communities.”<\/p>\n
A 43-year-old woman is due to appear in Wait\u0101kere District Court today charged with unlawful possession of a restricted weapon and unlawful possession of ammunition.<\/p>\n
A 23-year-old man, charged with contravening a protection order and wilful damage, will also appear in the court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stolen car parked on yellow lines in West Auckland has led police to a man hiding under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-607179","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\/607179","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=607179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}