{"id":320767,"date":"2026-03-09T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/320767\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:42:09","slug":"gisborne-dairy-robbery-disguised-teens-hold-up-store-with-a-tomahawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/320767\/","title":{"rendered":"Gisborne dairy robbery: Disguised teens hold up store with a tomahawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey came inside about 15-20 minutes later, with masks on and armed with an axe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI hit my panic button and stepped back into the kitchen area of the shop. <\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOne of them chased me into the rear of the shop, but he stopped and went back when I called for help from a colleague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey both broke into the cigarette dispenser with the axe, filled a large bag full of cigarettes, ran out to their car and drove off.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">The incident \u201creally scared\u201d him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSomething like this has never happened to me before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The store keeper who was threatened by the intruders told The Gisborne Herald he was really scared by what happened. &quot;Something like that has never happened to me before.&quot;      Photo \/ Murray Robertson\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The store keeper who was threatened by the intruders told The Gisborne Herald he was really scared by what happened. &#8220;Something like that has never happened to me before.&#8221;      Photo \/ Murray Robertson<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">The pair fled in a stolen silver Nissan Tiida, which was found in Campbell St about two hours later, Griffiths said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIf you know the whereabouts and movements of the car before or after the robbery, know details of the offenders, or have any information regarding the robbery or distribution of the cigarettes, you\u2019re urged to contact police,\u201d Griffiths said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis brazen offending won\u2019t be tolerated.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Contact police on 105, either by phone or online, using file number 260306\/0305.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Information could also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey came inside about 15-20 minutes later, with masks on and armed with an axe. \u201cI hit my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7814,1558,48745,20491,69895,7224,13919,2837,12506,28162,101,111,43,139,69,5970,27517,23853,2735,47066,672,64796,810,102,12767],"class_list":{"0":"post-320767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-armed","10":"tag-been","11":"tag-briefly","12":"tag-chased","13":"tag-confronted","14":"tag-dairy","15":"tag-disguised","16":"tag-during","17":"tag-gisborne","18":"tag-hold","19":"tag-left","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-really","25":"tag-robbery","26":"tag-scared","27":"tag-store","28":"tag-teenagers","29":"tag-teens","30":"tag-tomahawk","31":"tag-up","32":"tag-with","33":"tag-worker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320767","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=320767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}