{"id":169658,"date":"2025-12-05T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169658\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:27:12","slug":"33000-pendant-swallowed-in-auckland-jewellery-heist-recovered-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169658\/","title":{"rendered":"$33,000 pendant swallowed in Auckland jewellery heist \u2018recovered\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed the item was back in their possession last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">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<p><img  alt=\"The recovered Faberg\u00e9 locket. Photo \/ NZ Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The recovered Faberg\u00e9 locket. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">A golden octopus inside the locket was set with two black diamonds for eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">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<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">In a statement released to RNZ, Partridge Jewellers confirmed the attempted theft took place at its Queen St store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe store management team responded immediately, and police were on site to detain the person in question within minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe safety of Partridge\u2019s clients and staff is the highest priority, and the team is grateful for the police\u2019s swift support in dealing with the situation, which is now in the hands of legal professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Partridge said the pendant would be returned to Faberg\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police confirmed the item was back in their possession last night. An online listing for the locket said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[109957,51,27129,38268,29260,78,16285,111,43,139,69,109958,8694,76103],"class_list":["post-169658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-109957","tag-auckland","tag-blackwell","tag-finn","tag-heist","tag-in","tag-jewellery","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pendant","tag-recovered","tag-swallowed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169658","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=169658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}