Two teenagers have been arrested after an aggravated robbery outside a Mt Wellington petrol station overnight.<\/p>\n
Auckland City East Area Commander Inspector Jim Wilson said a man was approached on the forecourt of the petrol station on Mt Wellington Highway shortly after 11.30pm.<\/p>\n
“Two males approached the victim and wanted him to buy items from the store.<\/p>\n
“When the victim didn\u2019t oblige, the pair allegedly assaulted him and stole a necklace from him.”<\/p>\n
The pair took off on their bikes before police were called.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice have used CCTV cameras in the area to quickly track their movements and we established they were still in the area,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n
The two males, aged 14 and 15, were taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n
Both were charged with aggravated robbery and would appear in the Auckland Youth Court today.<\/p>\n
Wilson said the necklace has been recovered, and the victim was “shaken but did not require hospitalisation”.<\/p>\n
“I would like to acknowledge our staff working last night for their work in bringing about two arrests so quickly,” he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenagers have been arrested after an aggravated robbery outside a Mt Wellington petrol station overnight. Auckland City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173138,"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-173137","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\/173137","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=173137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}