{"id":452823,"date":"2026-02-02T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452823\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:14:08","slug":"safe-stolen-from-sydney-hotel-held-no-valuables-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452823\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe stolen from Sydney hotel held no valuables, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the motive behind the theft of a portable safe from a hotel in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sydney&#039;s\">Sydney&#8217;s<\/a> CBD this morning is unknown, with the safe holding nothing of &#8220;particular value&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police \ufeffwere called to a hotel on Little Pier Street at Haymarket at about 5.40am.<\/p>\n<p>They were told two men threatened staff before stealing the safe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e32eecb9-e5bb-4f61-b1da-12508bc6cab8.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>NSW Police Chief Inspector Gary Coffey. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>The two staffers, a man and a woman, were physically detained and taken to a back office, where they were threatened and the safe was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>After initial reports one of the men may have been armed with a gun, Chief Inspector Gary Coffey confirmed later this morning that CCTV revealed there was no gun, but one of the men had a screwdriver.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The contents of the safe are of no particular value,&#8221; Coffey said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not a high-value item at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the safe had contained documents and other material associated with the hotel, rather than cash deposits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very unusual to target this kind of hotel at this hour of the morning,&#8221; Coffey said.<\/p>\n<p>Police have released descriptions of two men they believe can assist with investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The first man is described only as wearing a grey jumper and grey tracksuit pants.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The second man man is described as wearing dark-coloured jumper and tracksuit pants.<\/p>\n<p>Both had their faces covered.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s believed they are driving a 2013-model Volvo station wagon described as beige in colour, with NSW registration CJZ 08Z.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was reported stolen from Petersham on January 23.<\/p>\n<p>People are warned to not approach the men if seen, but to call Triple Zero.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"online\">online<\/a> or on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say the motive behind the theft of a portable safe from a hotel in Sydney&#8217;s CBD this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-452823","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\/452823","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=452823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}