{"id":234067,"date":"2026-01-15T05:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234067\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:25:07","slug":"overseas-aucklanders-told-their-audi-had-been-stolen-and-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234067\/","title":{"rendered":"Overseas Aucklanders\u00a0told their\u00a0Audi\u00a0had been stolen \u2013 and recovered\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police investigating a series of petrol thefts in East Auckland led to the discovery of a vehicle allegedly stolen while its owners were overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were carrying out a search warrant at a house in Juliet Ave in Howick when a man at the back of the property attempted to flee, Senior Sergeant Simon Cornish said.<\/p>\n<p>Cornish said police believed the man was &#8220;discarding evidence in the backyard&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>During his arrest, officers found a set of keys which had been thrown into an outside shed.<\/p>\n<p>The find led police to an allegedly stolen Audi Q7 vehicle, parked 300m down the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing a number of inquiries it was found the vehicle had been taken during an unreported burglary at an Island View Tce property, where the owners were overseas,&#8221; Cornish said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police have managed to contact the homeowners to advise them of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Safe to say they were very grateful to be made aware of what had occurred and to learn the vehicle had been recovered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 32-year-old man was due to appear in the Manukau District Court today facing multiple charges, including burglary, theft, receiving property, possession for supply of cannabis, and resisting police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police investigating a series of petrol thefts in East Auckland led to the discovery of a vehicle allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-234067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234067","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=234067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}