{"id":621402,"date":"2026-10-05T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621402\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:46:11","slug":"two-youths-in-custody-after-vehicle-rams-police-car-in-riccarton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621402\/","title":{"rendered":"Two youths in custody after vehicle rams police car in Riccarton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two youths have been taken into custody after a vehicle rammed a police car during an incident in Christchurch this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Kerry Joyce\u00a0told chrislynchmedia.com officers spotted a vehicle of interest travelling west on Riccarton Road at about 12.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>Police signalled for the driver to stop, but the vehicle continued on.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Joyce said officers did not pursue because of the manner in which the vehicle was being driven.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54374\" class=\"wp-image-54374 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1240\" height=\"858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2281-e1791162565248.jpg\"  data-max-width=\"1240\" data- data-eio-rwidth=\"1240\" data-eio-rheight=\"858\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-54374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Lynch Media<\/p>\n<p>Police said the vehicle then allegedly rammed a police car, causing minor damage.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police spikes were used to stop the car.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle eventually stopped on Shand Crescent, where the two youths were taken into custody with assistance from the Police Dog Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Police said charges were being considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two youths have been taken into custody after a vehicle rammed a police car during an incident in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[373,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-621402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-featured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621402","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=621402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}