{"id":609323,"date":"2026-09-23T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/609323\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:18:09","slug":"driver-allegedly-crashes-stolen-car-attempts-carjackings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/609323\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver allegedly crashes stolen car, attempts carjackings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A man has been taken into custody after allegedly crashing a stolen vehicle before attempting to carjack other vehicles in Auckland this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said they were called following a report of a vehicle stolen from Roscommon Rd in Manurewa at around 4.07pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The vehicle was spotted on Lambie Dr but took off &#8220;at speed&#8221;, crashing shortly afterwards at the intersection of Ormiston Rd and Te Irirangi Dr in Flat Bush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;The driver has fled on foot and attempted to get into other cars waiting at the lights but was unsuccessful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">A man was taken into custody following the incident in Flat Bush.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Footage from the scene showed significant damage to the vehicle, with a traffic light knocked to the ground and debris scattered across the intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Officers arrived at the scene and the man was taken into custody &#8220;without issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Inquiries into the initial theft of the vehicle were ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been taken into custody after allegedly crashing a stolen vehicle before attempting to carjack other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-609323","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\/609323","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=609323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}