{"id":608381,"date":"2026-09-22T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608381\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:42:10","slug":"youths-arrested-after-chopper-tracks-stolen-car-through-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608381\/","title":{"rendered":"Youths arrested after chopper tracks stolen car through Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two youths have been arrested after a stolen vehicle led police and a hired commercial chopper on a pursuit around Christchurch today.<\/p>\n<p>Police first received several reports of cars being broken into in the Halswell area at around 10.45am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Christchurch Metro area commander Superintendent Lane Todd said police used a commercial helicopter to assist ground staff due to the reported manner of driving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At around 2.10pm, after the successful deployment of preventive road spikes, the vehicle came to a stop on Lincoln Tai Tapu Rd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two youths were taken into custody with inquiries into the incident still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police thank the Christchurch community for their patience while this incident was ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two youths have been arrested after a stolen vehicle led police and a hired commercial chopper on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-608381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/608381","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=608381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}