A 40-year-old Northland man has appeared on a kidnapping charge following an incident where a female escaped from a moving vehicle.
Detective Senior Sergeant John Clayton said the girl was walking on Manapouri Rd near Corks Rd, in Tikipunga, when she was allegedly pulled into a vehicle about 1pm on Sunday.
The girl was able to free herself and escape from the vehicle, a black ute, while it was still moving. A following driver saw the girl jump form the ute stopped to help her.
Police would like hear from this driver. Clayton said police also believe the same vehicle may have been involved in an altercation outside the Tikipunga shops at the intersection of Kiripaka and Spedding Rds where the ute may have received minor damage, later the same day.
Eric Darren Abraham, forestry worker of Ngararatunua, near Whangārei, appeared in Whangārei District Court yesterday on one charge of unlawfully detaining a female without her consent with intent to cause her to be confined.