Justice was served in Hari Hari on the South Island's West Coast on Friday night when farm workers captured a gang member who had been evading police since a Hokitika burglary the previous morning.
The wanted man allegedly stole a car in Nelson and with a female accomplice refused to stop for police in Reefton on Wednesday, continued to Hokitika where they broke into the Stafford St Four Square on Thursday morning, before heading out on State Highway 6.
Police gave chase around Hari Hari and found the stolen car rolled on a forest road.
The woman was apprehended a short time later but the man escaped into the bush and evaded the Armed Offenders Squad.
He emerged just before 7pm on Friday, when farm workers found him in a house just below Mt Hercules.