A man is facing five charges after allegedly attacking and chasing a woman who was walking in a North Auckland suburb yesterday morning.<\/p>\n
Police said the woman was walking on D’oyly Drive in Stanmore Bay at 5.24am when a man “deliberately crossed the road” and approached her. <\/p>\n
He allegedly grabbed the woman’s arms “without warning”, holding her “firmly” and stopping her from getting away. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe victim was trying to pull free and put some distance between them,” Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Jimmy Kim said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout the struggle, the alleged offender was yelling at her, but she couldn\u2019t hear what he was saying due to having her earpods in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman managed to break free and ran away, and the man chased her as she tried to escape. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe victim was able to use a parked car as a barrier,\u201d Kim said. <\/p>\n
Members of the public driving on the road witnessed the incident and pulled over to help the woman. <\/p>\n
The alleged offender fled the area. <\/p>\n
Later that morning, officers spotted a man matching the description the victim gave. <\/p>\n
\u201cUpon seeing police, this man ducked down the nearest driveway in an attempt to evade officers,” Kim said. <\/p>\n
Police said the man had no reason to be at the property and was taken into custody “after a short struggle”. <\/p>\n
A 40-year-old man was charged with assault with intent to injure, unlawfully being in an enclosed yard, resisting police, assaulting a first responder, and possessing utensils for methamphetamine.<\/p>\n
He will appear in the North Shore District Court today. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis was good work by staff who spotted this man while conducting enquiries into the incident that morning,\u201d Kim said. <\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers were in the right place at the right time when this man returned to the scene of his alleged earlier crime.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was no doubt a terrifying incident for the victim, and I am pleased that we were able to quickly locate and arrest the alleged offender.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing five charges after allegedly attacking and chasing a woman who was walking in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-639579","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\/639579","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=639579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}