{"id":164146,"date":"2025-12-02T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/164146\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:19:08","slug":"man-charged-with-theft-after-allegedly-swallowing-faberge-pendant-in-jewellery-store-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/164146\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with theft after allegedly swallowing Faberg\u00e9 pendant in jewellery store | New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a> man has been charged with theft after allegedly swallowing a Faberg\u00e9 James Bond Octopussy egg pendant worth more than $33,500 (US$19,200).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police were called to a central Auckland jewellery store, Partridge Jewellers, on Friday afternoon after staff reported a man had allegedly picked up the pendant and swallowed it, said Grae Anderson, the city\u2019s central area commander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe Auckland city beat team responded minutes later, arresting the man inside the store,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Charge sheets, seen by the Guardian, confirm a 32-year-old man was charged with theft on 29 November for allegedly stealing the Faberg\u00e9 x 007 Special Edition Octopussy Egg Surprise Locket, valued at $33,585.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Faberg\u00e9 is one of the most renowned jewellers in the world, known for its imperial Russian eggs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">According to Faberg\u00e9\u2019s website, the pendant is made from 18-karat yellow gold and decorated with green guilloch\u00e9 enamel. It is set with 60 white diamonds and 15 blue sapphires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The egg locket \u201coffers a surprise\u201d \u2013 inside contains a miniature 18k gold octopus with two black diamond eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The police could not offer any photos of the object as it \u201chas not yet been recovered\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The man was also charged with allegedly stealing an iPad from the same jewellery store on 12 November and, the following day, stealing cat litter and flea treatment, worth $100, from a private address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He has been remanded in custody and will reappear in the district court on 8 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Zealand man has been charged with theft after allegedly swallowing a Faberg\u00e9 James Bond Octopussy egg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-164146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/164146","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=164146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}