{"id":161976,"date":"2025-12-01T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/161976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:43:10","slug":"trio-violently-assaulted-while-trying-to-stop-alleged-mall-shoplifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/161976\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio &#8216;violently assaulted&#8217; while trying to stop alleged mall shoplifters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Two people are set to appear in court after what police described as a &#8216;violent assault&#8217; during an alleged shoplifting attempt at Auckland&#8217;s Glenfield Mall last week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were called to the North Shore mall at around 1.30pm Friday after receiving reports that two security guards had been attacked by alleged shoplifters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Acting Senior Sergeant Alex Waworis alleged two females had &#8220;violently assaulted three people&#8221; who were trying to stop them from leaving the mall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Two security guards and a member of the public had been assaulted, with two of the victims needing to be transported to hospital for medical treatment,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police tracked the alleged offenders a short distance from the mall, where they were taken into custody. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We are pleased to have apprehended these alleged offenders and hold them to account for their actions,&#8221; Waworis said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said the alleged shoplifted items were returned to the store. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The pair are due to appear in court later this week, charged with a range of offences including aggravated assault. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are set to appear in court after what police described as a &#8216;violent assault&#8217; during an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-161976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161976","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=161976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}