{"id":310204,"date":"2026-03-03T01:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310204\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:29:09","slug":"sweet-craving-has-sour-ending-for-queenstown-shoplifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310204\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet craving has sour ending for Queenstown shoplifters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of wanted shoplifters picked the wrong store to curb their chocolate craving when they were nabbed in a Frankton supermarket, police said.<\/p>\n<p>An officer in the supermarket noticed two men matching the description of offenders from a previous shoplifting incident.<\/p>\n<p>It was established the pair were also shoplifting at the time, and they were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Otago Lakes Central area commander Inspector Paula Enoka said the arrest was &#8220;a great catch&#8221; in the crackdown on retail crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to commend the officer &#8211; their keen eye and attention to detail is what has led to this arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis type of offending puts a big strain on our local businesses and will not be tolerated by police or the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two men, aged 19 and 20, are due to appear in Queenstown District Court on March 23, charged with shoplifting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of wanted shoplifters picked the wrong store to curb their chocolate craving when they were nabbed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-310204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310204","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=310204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}