Two teenagers and an adult man have been arrested after a 75-year-old man was left with serious head injuries during a violent burglary in Hamilton on Monday night.
District Operations Manager, Inspector John Kelly said police were called to an address in north Hamilton after people heard a disturbance and went to investigate.
"It appears a 75-year-old man has disturbed three people breaking into his garage and stealing tools and a barbeque," said Mr Kelly.
"The victim has attempted to stop them and in the process been struck to the head with what we believe was a large set of bolt cutters, he was taken to Waikato Hospital with serious head injuries where he remains at this time."
Mr Kelly said in addition to raising the alarm members of the public prevented one of the offenders leaving the scene and arriving police staff tracked the other two to a nearby property with the aid of a police dog.
