A woman who allegedly stole over $13,000 worth of items was found by police hiding in a wardrobe.<\/p>\n
Police said today the woman had a warrant out for her arrest for shoplifting multiple times in Taup\u014d, T\u016brangi, Tauranga, Te K\u016biti and Rotorua.<\/p>\n
She had also breached bail.<\/p>\n
Beat Team officers found the 22-year-old hiding in a wardrobe in Rotorua on Saturday after discovering her vehicle and arrested her on 24 charges, almost all relating to dishonesty offences, including 17 for shoplifting.<\/p>\n
She is due to appear in Taup\u014d District Court on February 9.<\/p>\n
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
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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":"A woman who allegedly stole over $13,000 worth of items was found by police hiding in a wardrobe.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-191771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/191771","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=191771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}