Police are asking the public for sightings of "dangerous" prisoner Michael Tautari after the 24-year-old went on the run after a crash in Northland late yesterday.
Tautari was granted compassionate bail to attend a tangi in Kawakawa, but failed to return to Northland Region Corrections Facility yesterday afternoon.
A police spokesperson said Tautari crashed into a fence along State Highway 1 in Oakleigh, south of Whangārei, about 7pm yesterday, before stealing another vehicle and heading north to the suburb of Raumanga.
He was last known to be in Raumanga but, because of ties to Auckland, police suspect he may have travelled south.