{"id":642945,"date":"2026-10-27T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642945\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:26:09","slug":"upper-hutt-armed-robbery-police-hunt-two-suspects-after-stolen-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642945\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Hutt armed robbery: Police hunt two suspects after stolen-car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">No other vehicles were involved and no serious injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The alleged driver was arrested, while police are still searching for the two passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said SH1 was closed to southbound traffic from the Kenepuru offramp following the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">SH59 was also closed southbound from the Mungavin interchange, while northbound traffic on both highways remained unaffected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The closures were still in place as of 8.34pm, with motorists advised to use alternative routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No other vehicles were involved and no serious injuries were reported. The alleged driver was arrested, while police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1554,7814,6799,3549,26094,10937,32655,49947,29819,111,43,139,69,675,27517,8214,4736,185124,10935,1237,25448],"class_list":["post-642945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-armed","tag-cars","tag-crash","tag-getaway","tag-hunt","tag-hunting","tag-hutt","tag-involving","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-sparked","tag-stolen","tag-stolencar","tag-suspects","tag-two","tag-upper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642945","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=642945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}