{"id":190821,"date":"2025-12-18T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/190821\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:46:08","slug":"rotorua-shoplifting-suspect-accused-of-13k-thefts-found-hiding-in-wardrobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/190821\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua shoplifting suspect accused of $13k thefts found hiding in wardrobe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another alleged shoplifter, aged 20, was also found at the same address.<\/p>\n

Police said she was recognised by a tattoo on her forearm.<\/p>\n

She is currently on bail with two charges of taking goods worth over $1000 and was due to appear in Rotorua District Court yesterday.<\/p>\n

Area prevention co-ordinator Senior Sergeant Sonia Sherborne said the Beat Teams were focused on retail crime and offenders would be found and held to account for stealing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are likely to see our Beat Teams out and about over the Christmas and New Year period.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take shoplifting seriously and make no apologies for protecting our communities and local businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur communities deserve to feel safe, and we are committed to being present, engaged and responsive in the spaces where people live, work and play.<\/p>\n

\u201cRetail crime is a key focus. Shoplifting is not okay, and we are catching offenders in the act, and afterwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe simply won\u2019t stand for that sort of behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you witness any illegal or suspicious activity, please call 111 if it is happening now, or 105 if it is after the fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another alleged shoplifter, aged 20, was also found at the same address. Police said she was recognised by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119245,119244,1117,7818,1874,4748,78,19474,111,43,139,69,1118,1523,675,1327,4742,1346,19687,46870,51645,1354,19985],"class_list":["post-190821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-119245","tag-13k","tag-accused","tag-allegedly","tag-found","tag-hiding","tag-in","tag-items","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-over","tag-police","tag-rotorua","tag-shoplifting","tag-stole","tag-suspect","tag-thefts","tag-wardrobe","tag-woman","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190821","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=190821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}