{"id":250670,"date":"2026-01-25T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250670\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:30:10","slug":"te-awamutu-dominos-pizza-workers-chase-down-brazen-burglar-as-he-steals-tv-from-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250670\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Awamutu Domino\u2019s Pizza workers chase down brazen burglar as he steals TV from store"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judge Saunders remanded him into custody<\/a> ahead of his sentencing.<\/p>\n

Vege crates, bread and a TV<\/p>\n

According to the summary of facts, Kaukau used his own car in each of the burglaries.<\/p>\n

In the first one, during December 2024, Kaukau and an associate drove up to the Waikato Hospital loading bay about 2pm.<\/p>\n

He climbed onto the dock and went into the building, grabbed 31 vegetable crates and handed them to his associate, who then put them in the car.<\/p>\n

Kaukau then went back in and stole a tray of bread, which held 10 loaves. The food was worth $385.<\/p>\n

Three weeks later, in January last year, he went to Kaipaki Nursery at 12.55pm in his car, bearing incorrect number plates, and climbed through a toilet window in a building at the nursery.<\/p>\n

He then opened the roller door from inside and reversed his car up to the building. <\/p>\n

Kaukau then stole up to 200 collapsible crates valued at $2000.<\/p>\n

A week later, he drove to Domino\u2019s Pizza in Te Awamutu, parked around the back, and walked into a storeroom. In there, he found a new Samsung TV, still in its box.<\/p>\n

As he tried to drag it towards the door, he was seen by staff on CCTV who chased him and stopped him.<\/p>\n

Belinda Feek is an Open Justice reporter based in Waikato. She has worked at NZME for 11 years and has been a journalist for 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge Saunders remanded him into custody ahead of his sentencing. Vege crates, bread and a TV According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,806,38474,53882,45662,17287,9436,20491,76689,6097,71,692,111,43,139,69,26203,17892,2735,145726,4758,8690,417,437,102,4478],"class_list":["post-250670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-as","tag-awamutu","tag-brazen","tag-burglar","tag-busted","tag-chase","tag-chased","tag-dominos","tag-down","tag-from","tag-he","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pizza","tag-steals","tag-store","tag-strolling","tag-taking","tag-te","tag-television","tag-tv","tag-with","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250670","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=250670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}