{"id":295790,"date":"2025-11-19T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295790\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:12:11","slug":"thousands-of-toys-found-as-police-bust-alleged-shoplifting-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295790\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of toys found as police bust alleged shoplifting operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police on the Gold Coast have arrested four people after seizing two vans full of allegedly stolen toys, as well as drugs and firearms.<\/p>\n<p>The items were allegedly found at a Gold Coast home police raided on November 11.<\/p>\n<p>During the search, items believed to be linked to a sophisticated receipt-fraud scheme were also allegedly found.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ff5e7b15-5d19-4b6f-892a-5b96e24ebe52.jpeg\"   alt=\"Gold Coast Police say they found two vans full of allegedly stolen toys.\"\/>Gold Coast Police say they found two vans full of allegedly stolen toys. (Queensland Police)<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the group produced counterfeit receipts resembling those from major retail stores and used them to unlawfully remove high-value items such as electrical appliances, bedding, homewares and toys.<\/p>\n<p>The items were then allegedly sold online through social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives also allegedly uncovered methamphetamine, drug utensils and two firearms at the home. One firearm was later found to be a modified gel blaster.<\/p>\n<p>All four occupants of the home were arrested and taken into police custody.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the group routinely drove unlicensed and used multiple vehicles to avoid police detection and that children were involved in the preparation and sale of stolen goods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/Z8tJCf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police on the Gold Coast have arrested four people after seizing two vans full of allegedly stolen toys,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-295790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}