{"id":371037,"date":"2026-04-09T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371037\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:20:09","slug":"four-teens-arrested-after-ram-raid-in-wellington-suburb-of-miramar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371037\/","title":{"rendered":"Four teens arrested after ram-raid in Wellington suburb of Miramar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4KAEMAL_RNZD0270_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFour teenagers have been arrested following an early morning ram-raid.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Four teenagers have been arrested following an early morning ram-raid in the Wellington suburb of Miramar on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a store on Tauhinu Road shortly after 2.10am after reports of multiple alarms going off.<\/p>\n<p>The front door was smashed, and a car was left at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A police dog unit tracked the alleged offenders from the store to a house on Booth Street, Miramar.<\/p>\n<p>Officers discovered the teenagers, a stolen car and a large amount of alcohol stolen from the shop.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Commander Inspector Dean Silvester said he was happy to have identified the alleged thieves so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old, two 17-year-olds and a 19-year-old have appeared at Wellington District Court, and were bailed to reappear later this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four teenagers have been arrested following an early morning ram-raid. Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER Four teenagers have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-371037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371037","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=371037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}