{"id":89738,"date":"2025-10-20T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89738\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:42:09","slug":"stolen-car-carrying-eight-youths-stopped-by-spikes-on-sh1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89738\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen car carrying eight youths stopped by spikes on SH1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight youths \u2013 all too young to drive \u2013 have been rounded up after fleeing police in a stolen Toyota in the early hours of this morning. <\/p>\n<p>The incident began on State Highway One in Massey when the youths, aged between 12 and 15, failed to stop for police.<\/p>\n<p>The group instead took off along the South-Western Motorway towards Blockhouse Bay. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of pursuing by car, a Police Eagle helicopter and a Delta Dog Unit were brought into the effort to catch the teens.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Senior Sergeant Bartlett said: &#8220;The vehicle was successfully spiked on State Highway 20, near the Hillsborough off-ramp&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Three teens would face Waitakere Youth Court this week on charges including dangerous driving and failing to stop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight youths \u2013 all too young to drive \u2013 have been rounded up after fleeing police in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-89738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89738","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=89738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}