{"id":2950,"date":"2023-02-10T18:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T05:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2023-02-10T18:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T05:04:29","slug":"three-prisoners-escape-from-police-van-on-auckland-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2950","title":{"rendered":"Three prisoners escape from police van on Auckland motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three prisoners are still on the loos<\/p>\n<p>Police said the three remand prisoners escaped near the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway off-ramp at about 2.40pm, while the van was heading north towards Mt Eden prison.<\/p>\n<p>They fled on foot towards the South-Eastern Highway, befre stealing a vehicle from a passer-by and drive off.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendant Shanan Gray said police were still hunting the prisoners and asked anybody who saw today&#8217;s events to contact police as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an ongoing incident and further updates will be provided once they become available,&#8221; Gray said.<\/p>\n<p>e after leaping to freedom from the back of a transport wagon on an Auckland motorway and stealing a car this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three prisoners are still on the loos Police said the three remand prisoners escaped near the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway off-ramp at about 2.40pm, while the van was heading north towards Mt Eden prison. They fled on foot towards the South-Eastern Highway, befre stealing a vehicle from a passer-by and drive off. Superintendant Shanan Gray said police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}