{"id":245668,"date":"2026-01-22T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245668\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:27:09","slug":"faceless-mystery-man-sought-over-hawea-crime-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245668\/","title":{"rendered":"Faceless mystery man sought over H\u0101wea crime spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released video footage of a mystery man believed to be behind a series of car crimes in Lake\u00a0H\u0101wea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man, who has no discernable face but a possibly distinctive gait, can be seen walking beside a car in the CCTV footage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe he may be able to assist us with our enquiries into the break-ins, which were reported between midnight Saturday January 17 and 5am on Sunday January 18,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Eight cars were attempted to be broken into, including one vehicle that was stolen &#8211; and later recovered by police.<\/p>\n<p>The streets the cars were tampered with were parked on Capell Avenue, Paradise Place, Hewson Crescent, Little Maude Avenue, Lakeview Terrace, Grandview Road and Bell Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police were also aware of a vehicle heard doing burnouts and crashing in the area at 4am, where Police were not called.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who recognises this man is asked to contact Police on 105 quoting\u00a0file number 260118\/4376.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released video footage of a mystery man believed to be behind a series of car crimes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-245668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245668","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=245668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}