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<\/p>\nAn Auckland shopkeeper has described the moment he chased two offenders out of his store during an attempted robbery on Karangahape Road last night.<\/p>\n
Walia Superette owner Manggi Sarbjit Singh told 1News he was on the phone with his granddaughter and about to serve a customer when he saw a male “suddenly run from the door”, with another person behind him.<\/p>\n
The person could be seen on CCTV leaping on the counter, where Singh said he then “took a step back” and “pushed” him off, before the male ran out of the store.<\/p>\n
“I then picked up my hockey stick, tried to run behind him, then they jumped in the car and took off.<\/p>\n
“It happened within a minute. [I] couldn’t think about it.”<\/p>\n
Singh said robbers usually “come after smokes or cash”, and praised the police response. To his “surprise” they responded within “two minutes”.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on his instinctive reactions the morning after, he said he considered himself “lucky” and said there could have been “no day tomorrow”.<\/p>\n
Police later confirmed one of the pair had been found with a machete.<\/p>\n
“What can I do?” Singh said, “I can’t do much, you have to work. You can’t sit home scared or something like that.”<\/p>\n
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Walia Superette on Karangahape Road. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Four arrested, one with machete<\/p>\n
In a statement, police said the two males with covered faces entered the Karangahape Rd store just before 9pm, “verbally abusing the shopkeeper”. <\/p>\n
Inspector Grae Anderson said one of the offenders “jumped onto the counter”, resulting in the shopkeeper chasing them out of the store. <\/p>\n
The offenders ran to a stolen car that was waiting for them and fled the area. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis vehicle was later detected in the Western Springs area, with a police camera operator tracking its movements until the police Eagle helicopter got overhead,\u201d Anderson said. <\/p>\n
Two 17-year-olds were arrested after they got out of the car near St Lukes. One was alledgedly carrying a machete.<\/p>\n
Parliament considers a recommendation to let the public detain and arrest\u00a0offenders.\u00a0 (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
The stolen vehicle was eventually stopped by police on Te Atat\u016b Rd, and two boys, aged 12 and 13, were taken into custody. The two were referred to Youth Aid. <\/p>\n
The 17-year-olds were jointly charged with unlawfully taking a motor vehicle. One was also charged with possessing an offensive weapon.<\/p>\n
They were due to appear in the Auckland Youth Court today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland shopkeeper has described the moment he chased two offenders out of his store during an attempted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-325748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325748","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=325748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}