{"id":218773,"date":"2026-01-06T01:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218773\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:13:18","slug":"west-auckland-attempted-robbery-11-year-old-among-three-youths-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218773\/","title":{"rendered":"West Auckland attempted robbery: 11-year-old among three youths arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWithin minutes of the aggravated robbery being reported, three youths were located and arrested, which is a great result.\u201d <\/p>\n

Goldie said police are committed to holding \u201cthose who choose to commit these crimes to account\u201d. <\/p>\n

Three youths, aged between 11-15, have been referred to Youth Aid Services. <\/p>\n

Anyone who witnesses suspicious or unlawful behaviour should call 111 as soon as possible, said Goldie. <\/p>\n

Registered child psychologist Sara Chatwin told the Herald last week that a history of violence, family circumstances and involvement with drugs and alcohol are factors which motivate teens to commit violent crimes.<\/p>\n

Chatwin said another factor for young people related to how they dealt with personal problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may be at home. It may be that they feel the educational system is failing them, perhaps they have anger and aggression that manifests in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

She believes the way to approach the issue is to not assign fault or blame to teenagers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is not one clear pathway to rectify this situation … there\u2019s a multiplicity of pathways that need to be optioned so that we get some calm in the chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWithin minutes of the aggravated robbery being reported, three youths were located and arrested, which is a great…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52495,7818,3471,7814,11924,5765,51,42,2205,43,27517,1326,1529,40,38,41,39,3807,678],"class_list":["post-218773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-11yearold","tag-allegedly","tag-among","tag-armed","tag-arrested","tag-attempted","tag-auckland","tag-headlines","tag-involved","tag-news","tag-robbery","tag-shop","tag-three","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west","tag-youths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218773","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=218773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}