Police are investigating after an Auckland resident woke to find an unknown man in their house on Friday morning. <\/p>\n
The man had allegedly been involved in a burglary at the home on Chiltern Cres in Glen Innes.<\/p>\n
Detective Senior Sergeant Rebecca Kirk said one of the house’s occupants was awoken around 4.30am.<\/p>\n
\u201cInitially it was unclear who the person was in the darkness, but it was soon apparent that the male was not known to them,\u201d Kirk said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn occupant has screamed, startling the male and he has run from the address.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was last seen heading towards Leaside Ln.<\/p>\n
Police were called to the scene a short time later.<\/p>\n
“We have been doing door knocks in the area, and an investigation is ongoing,” she said.<\/p>\n
The man is described as being possibly Pacific Islander, around 172cm tall, with a horse tail haircut, and a neck tattoo depicting a Gothic or Irish clover, or similar.<\/p>\n
He was wearing red and white-striped candy cane boxer shorts and was barefoot. <\/p>\n
“Given the state of the man\u2019s dress, we believe it is highly likely that he is local to the area,” Kirk said.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s possible people heading to work have come across this male in the early hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone will know who this male is, and they need to contact police so we can resolve this matter.”<\/p>\n
Police were speaking with the occupants of the property and support was made available.<\/p>\n
“While they have not suffered any physical injuries, this was a frightening event for the household and we are working to identify this man.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with information has been asked to contact police on 105 or anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after an Auckland resident woke to find an unknown man in their house on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-385291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385291","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=385291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}