{"id":317374,"date":"2026-03-07T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/317374\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:26:08","slug":"police-in-pursuit-of-masked-robbers-who-targeted-rotorua-convenience-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/317374\/","title":{"rendered":"Police in pursuit of masked robbers who targeted Rotorua convenience store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>7 Mar, 2026 05:20 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">An investigation is underway after an aggravated robbery at a Mourea convenience store. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are in pursuit of three masked robbers who targeted a convenience store in Rotorua before fleeing this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A police helicopter had been circling the area in search of the trio who entered a Mourea shop with masks on \u201cdemanding items\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cAn investigation is underway after an aggravated<br \/>\n         robbery at a Mourea convenience store earlier today,\u201d police said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice were called to the premises about 3.40pm after a report of three people entering the store in masks and demanding items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 7 Mar, 2026 05:20 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11730,9218,112420,15037,78,117681,111,43,139,69,1118,675,85522,74756,1327,2735,1458,1961,1529,1299],"class_list":{"0":"post-317374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-afternoon","9":"tag-before","10":"tag-convenience","11":"tag-fleeing","12":"tag-in","13":"tag-masked","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-of","19":"tag-police","20":"tag-pursuit","21":"tag-robbers","22":"tag-rotorua","23":"tag-store","24":"tag-targeted","25":"tag-this","26":"tag-three","27":"tag-who"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317374","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=317374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}