{"id":11282,"date":"2025-09-09T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/11282\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:12:07","slug":"suspects-sought-after-smash-and-grab-at-michael-hill-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/11282\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspects sought after smash-and-grab at Michael Hill store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are speaking to people of interest after a smash-and-grab at a Michael Hill store in Auckland&#8217;s Botany this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police inspector Danny Meade said it received reports of seven offenders entering the store at about 4.20pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The group have used various weapons to smash the glass cabinets and have taken a quantity of jewellery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meade said the offenders fled the scene in two allegedly stolen vehicles, which were found abandoned near Botany Downs Secondary College a short distance away.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/stolen-vehicles-found-abandoned-near-botany-downs-secondary-F65NJAOPDNGKXCRY6BSCNELHZQ.jpg\" alt=\"Stolen vehicles found abandoned near Botany Downs Secondary College.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 iSFjhz image-metadata\">Stolen vehicles found abandoned near Botany Downs Secondary College. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Police are speaking to several people of interest, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are speaking to people of interest after a smash-and-grab at a Michael Hill store in Auckland&#8217;s Botany&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-11282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282","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=11282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}