School holiday fun...

[Hitcher]

Twenty police officers were involved in a chase through Wairoa yesterday afternoon (14 July), after two vehicles were stolen from a farm.

The incident began about 2.30pm when police were told of a vehicle doing wheelies on Whakamahi Beach.

As patrols made their way to the beach they passed a car with six people in it leaving the area. An attempt was made to stop the vehicle, but it sped off.

Police chased the car through residential Wairoa streets, before it drove south along State Highway 2, turned into a side road and crashed.

Two people ran from the car to a nearby farm, where they stole two vehicles before driving back to the crashed car and picking up one of the occupants.

Both vehicles then drove off.

One of the vehicles was stopped by police soon afterwards and the two occupants arrested.

The other vehicle drove along a farm track before crashing. Its lone occupant ran off across farmland.

Extra staff from Napier and Gisborne, including police dogs, were dispatched but were unable to locate the person.

No one was injured in the two crashes.

The other five people involved in the incident have been spoken to by police. A 16-year-old youth has been referred to youth aid, while an 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged with unlawfully getting into a stolen vehicle.

More charges are likely to be laid against the man, who will appear in the Wairoa District Court on July 20.

[Wenier]

well the kids have to do something in the holidays right?

[Mongoose]

And the problem is (apart from the pranged cars, little twaps should learn to drve). I mean, the kids had fun, the local Police had fun, why even the dog got a run(Ok it missed out on a chomp) but fun was had all around, huh?