Youth on run nabbed from above
PA Auckland A little magic helped in the arrest yesterday of a youth who led police through a rush-hour chase on a motor-cycle earlier reported stolen. Taking to a clump of bushes to avoid the police and traffic officers, the
youth was oblivious to a private radio station’s spotter plane circling overhead. The traffic officer aboard was able to pinpoint the fugitive’s hiding place and direct the patrol cars in the bustle of peak traffic.
At the same time Radio I warned motorists of an approaching police dog handler in his van. “I couldn’t understand what was happening . . . the drivers just parted for me like the Red Sea and I had a clear run to the scene,” said Constable Jim Donald.
“Later I realised that they must have been listening to the radio messages and knew I was coming through. It was magic.” But other officers just beat him to their quarry in the bushes, who had earlier reached 140km/h in the suburban chase.
The youth will appear in the Children and Young Persons Court at Auckland today on several traffic charges.
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