{"id":23494,"date":"2025-09-15T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23494\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:36:07","slug":"alleged-auckland-tool-thief-stole-14000-worth-of-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23494\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Auckland tool thief stole $14,000 worth of items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who allegedly stole more than $14,000 worth of gear, including tools, from various Auckland trade stores has been charged with shoplifting, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken into custody after a shoplifting incident at Bunnings Manukau earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Counties Manukau East communities manager Senior Sergeant Simon Cornish said, &#8220;upon further investigation, it was established the man was allegedly involved in several other incidents at different stores, involving leaving without paying for the items in his trolley.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week officers executed a search warrant at a rural property in Karaka,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police took a man into custody who we believe is responsible for stealing almost $15,000 worth of items from various stores across Counties Manukau.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the search, cannabis was also located at the address, and the man is now facing charges in relation to this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 38-year-old man is set to appear in Manukau District Court on September 18 charged with four counts of shoplifting and one of possession of cannabis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who allegedly stole more than $14,000 worth of gear, including tools, from various Auckland trade stores&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-23494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23494","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=23494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}