{"id":108799,"date":"2025-10-30T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/108799\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:14:09","slug":"six-arrested-after-rotorua-robbery-and-ram-raid-targeting-vapes-and-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/108799\/","title":{"rendered":"Six arrested after Rotorua robbery and ram raid targeting vapes and cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">The dumped vehicle was found nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">In the second incident,  four people  ram-raided a shop on Lynmore Ave early on Monday using two stolen vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">   They used one  to smash  into the shop, where they took vapes before fleeing in the second vehicle,  Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">The vehicle used to smash into the shop was left at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">She said police conducted two search warrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">Smith said a total of six people were facing charges after the two attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/kelly-makiha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Makiha<\/a> is a senior journalist who has reported for the Rotorua Daily Post for more than 25 years, covering mainly police, court, human interest and social issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dumped vehicle was found nearby. In the second incident, four people ram-raided a shop on Lynmore Ave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,11924,45410,21140,305,6721,111,43,139,69,384,675,11923,11922,27517,1327,78268,4739,20705,17902,24665,4767,5977,102],"class_list":["post-108799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-arrested","tag-cigarettes","tag-hammer","tag-have","tag-labour","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-police","tag-raid","tag-ram","tag-robbery","tag-rotorua","tag-shopkeeper","tag-six","tag-struck","tag-targeting","tag-vapes","tag-weekend","tag-which","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}