{"id":287718,"date":"2026-02-17T04:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287718\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:17:08","slug":"ranui-supermarket-staff-threatened-with-umbrella-after-alleged-theft-trio-to-appear-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287718\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u0101nui supermarket staff threatened with umbrella after alleged theft, trio to appear in court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police gave chase on foot and a suspect was apprehended. <\/p>\n

Edwards said a 33-year-old now faces charges including shoplifting, assault and resisting police.<\/p>\n

A 32-year-old woman faces charges of shoplifting and aggravated assault and a 39-year-old man faces charges of shoplifting and behaving threateningly.<\/p>\n

All three are due to appear in the Wait\u0101kere District Court today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no tolerance for the violent behaviour that this group exhibited towards supermarket staff, and they will all now be held accountable,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n

Last month an American reality TV star visiting New Zealand said she was almost knocked to the ground during a supermarket shoplifting incident.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kate Gosselin, known from 2000s hit show Kate Plus 8, had been shopping at New World in the Auckland suburb of Botany, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

Gosselin posted a video to TikTok, filmed immediately after incident explaining a man attempted to flee the supermarket with a trolley full of stolen groceries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police gave chase on foot and a suspect was apprehended. Edwards said a 33-year-old now faces charges including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1554,7818,12642,51,6384,1349,23676,6097,26094,78,111,43,139,69,384,4056,114144,1516,97,14168,18937,1529,61,13082,77749,20424,3807,1533,102],"class_list":["post-287718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-allegedly","tag-appear","tag-auckland","tag-confrontation","tag-court","tag-cyclist","tag-down","tag-getaway","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-person","tag-rnui","tag-staff","tag-supermarket","tag-theft","tag-threatened","tag-three","tag-to","tag-trio","tag-umbrella","tag-violent","tag-west","tag-will","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287718","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=287718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}