{"id":642893,"date":"2026-10-27T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642893\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:14:11","slug":"police-hunt-for-duo-following-reports-of-upper-hutt-robbery-and-car-jacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642893\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt for duo following reports of Upper Hutt robbery and car-jacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">A manhunt is underway for two people following reports of a robbery and car-jacking north of Wellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Police responded to a report of a robbery on Ararino Street in Upper Hutt around 5.30pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">They say three offenders, reportedly carrying an axe and a hammer, took a cash till before fleeing in a stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The trio abandoned the vehicle and stole another car, but attempts to stop it failed, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The driver lost control and crashed on State Highway 1 between Porirua and Tawa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Police said no serious injuries were reported and no other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The southbound lane near the Kenepuru off-ramp is currently closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Police said the alleged driver has been taken into custody, with work to find the two passengers ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A manhunt is underway for two people following reports of a robbery and car-jacking north of Wellington. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-642893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642893","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=642893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}