{"id":168521,"date":"2025-12-04T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168521\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:12:09","slug":"33000-pendant-swallowed-in-auckland-jewellery-heist-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168521\/","title":{"rendered":"$33,000 pendant swallowed in Auckland jewellery heist ‘recovered’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"$33,000<\/p>\n

\nThe Faberg\u00e9 locket which is worth more than $33,500.
\nPhoto: Supplied \/ NZ police\n<\/p>\n

A Faberg\u00e9 locket worth more than $33,500, swallowed by a man during an alleged theft at an Auckland jewellery store, has been “recovered”.<\/p>\n

Police had been called at 3.30pm last Friday to the store in Auckland city where a man was accused of picking up a Faberg\u00e9 James Bond Octopussy Egg pendant and swallowing it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Court documents reveal the pendant was worth $33,585.<\/p>\n

Inspector Grae Anderson told RNZ the man underwent a medical assessment<\/a> at the time of his arrest and an officer had been assigned to constantly monitor him.<\/p>\n

Police confirmed the item was back in their possession last night.<\/p>\n

An online listing for the locket said it had been crafted from 18ct yellow gold and set with 60 white diamonds and 15 blue sapphires.<\/p>\n

A golden octopus inside the locket was set with two black diamonds for eyes.<\/p>\n

Police said the 32-year-old man who swallowed the pendant remained in custody and would appear in Auckland District Court next week.<\/p>\n

Partridge Jewellers, where court documents list the item as being stolen from, is yet to respond to RNZ’s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Faberg\u00e9 locket which is worth more than $33,500. Photo: Supplied \/ NZ police A Faberg\u00e9 locket worth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-168521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168521","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=168521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}