{"id":168855,"date":"2025-12-05T04:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168855\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:01:08","slug":"teen-arrested-after-attempted-20k-clothing-theft-at-auckland-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168855\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested after attempted $20k clothing theft at Auckland store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old has been arrested after allegedly attempting to steal more than $20,000 worth of clothing from an Auckland store overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Police received reports of several alarms going off at JD Sports in Albany at around 2.54am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant CJ Miles said police attended the job immediately and found the glass shop front smashed and the roller door pulled up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers also located a stolen vehicle parked in front of the store, full of stolen merchandise. A person, in the process of loading further stolen goods into the car, exited the store and was taken into custody immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than $20,000 worth of property was recovered, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great example of how quick reporting greatly assists us in being able to stop offenders in their tracks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miles said police would continue to have an increased presence in and around shopping precincts in the lead up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It takes all of us to keep our communities safe, and we acknowledge retailers who continue to report matters to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old will appear in North Shore Youth Court today charged with burglary and unlawfully taking a vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old has been arrested after allegedly attempting to steal more than $20,000 worth of clothing from an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168856,"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-168855","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\/168855","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=168855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}