{"id":2963,"date":"2023-02-11T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2023-02-11T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:56:42","slug":"three-escaped-prisoners-still-on-the-run-after-fleeing-van-on-aucklands-southern-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2963","title":{"rendered":"Three escaped prisoners still on the run after fleeing van on Auckland&#8217;s Southern Motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are yet to find three remand prisoners on the run after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/484042\/three-prisoners-escape-from-police-van-on-auckland-motorway\">escaping from a prison van on Auckland&#8217;s Southern Motorway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The prisoners got out near the Ellerslie-Panmure off-ramp yesterday afternoon while their van was heading to Mt Eden prison and then stole a member of the public&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<p>Police are now appealing to the public for help to find the trio &#8211; Zane Hepi, 24, Billy Fepulea&#8217;i, 43, and Joseph Ng Wun, 45.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;dedicated&#8221; team of officers was working on the search, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The men have connections across Counties Manukau and Auckland City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The men are considered dangerous and should not be approached &#8211; however, if you see them police urge you to call 111 immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Information can also be given anonymously to Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Corrections has launched a review into how the prisoners escaped.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source : RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are yet to find three remand prisoners on the run after\u00a0escaping from a prison van on Auckland&#8217;s Southern Motorway. The prisoners got out near the Ellerslie-Panmure off-ramp yesterday afternoon while their van was heading to Mt Eden prison and then stole a member of the public&#8217;s car. Police are now appealing to the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","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=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}