Police have reunited a German tourist with his stolen belongings as he waited at Auckland Airport for his flight out of New Zealand.<\/p>\n
The man’s rental car was broken into earlier this week on Crummer Rd in Grey Lynn, Auckland Central area commander Inspector Grae Anderson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis backpack was taken, which contained various valuable electronics, his passport, and German bank cards,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The man reported the theft on November 19.<\/p>\n
Police found he had an Apple AirTag with his property, and enquiries led to an address in Wiri.<\/p>\n
A search of the address recovered almost all of the tourist’s property, as well as a large amount of “unrelated” cash and ammunition.<\/p>\n
Police then found the tourist’s backpack in a skip bin at a nearby Manukau service station, as well as other suitcases and travel bags which they were working to reunite with their rightful owners.<\/p>\n
The recovered property was given back to the grateful man by police as he waited for his flight out of New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased to be able to get his belongings back before he left the country,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe might have had a bad experience but being able to put that right is pleasing for our staff and I am proud of the combined effort it took to get his property returned.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 41-year-old man appeared in the Auckland District Court on November 20 on charges of theft-ex car and unlawfully possessing ammunition.<\/p>\n
He was remanded in custody to reappear on December 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have reunited a German tourist with his stolen belongings as he waited at Auckland Airport for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-146069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146069","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=146069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}