{"id":196364,"date":"2025-12-22T12:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196364\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:27:15","slug":"pair-arrested-after-reports-of-stealing-three-full-shopping-trolleys-from-auckland-kmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196364\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair arrested after reports of stealing three full shopping trolleys from Auckland Kmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4MEOC4O_copyright_image_256241\" width=\"1050\" height=\"765\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nKmart in Botany, Auckland.<br \/>\nPhoto: Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>A south Auckland woman will spend Christmas Eve in court after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/578349\/auckland-community-feeling-optimistic-shoplifting-is-under-control\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged with shoplifting<\/a> at Kmart.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Kmart in Botany about 10:30am on Sunday, after someone reported seeing a man and a woman stealing three shopping trolleys filled with items.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police have made a number of enquiries and subsequently located the vehicle at an address in Great South Road, Manurewa,&#8221; senior sergeant Simon Cornish said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two people were quickly arrested and about $400 worth of goods were recovered from the vehicle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cornish said Christmas was &#8220;a time for giving, not taking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Though two people were arrested, police only said a 35-year-old woman was charged with two counts of shoplifting and driving without a license.<\/p>\n<p>She is due to appear in the Manukau District Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kmart in Botany, Auckland. Photo: Google Maps A south Auckland woman will spend Christmas Eve in court after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-196364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196364","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=196364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}