Detective Senior Sergeant Rebecca Kirk said that while the man\u2019s identity remains unknown, police have located \u201cseveral items of interest\u201d which are undergoing forensic testing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s still early stages in our inquiries but we hope these will yield further lines of inquiries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can also release that the male is believed to be within the age of 16 to mid-20s, based on the description from occupants of the property.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police also say the man is possibly a Pacific Islander and around 1.72m-tall. <\/p>\n
He had a neck tattoo of a gothic or Irish clover, or similar, and a rat\u2019s-tail type of haircut. He wore red and white striped candy cane boxer shorts.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on what the male has been described as wearing, we believe he is likely local to the area,\u201d Kirk said.<\/p>\n
Kirk said one of the occupants initially could not identify the person in the darkness.<\/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.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn occupant has screamed, startling the male and he has run from the address.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man was last seen heading towards Leaside Lane.<\/p>\n
Police are asking anyone who might know this man to contact police on 105 using the reference number 260417\/6763.<\/p>\n
Information can also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detective Senior Sergeant Rebecca Kirk said that while the man\u2019s identity remains unknown, police have located \u201cseveral items…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7818,806,51,3952,92456,9767,5127,8590,1121,13982,36173,2082,1874,36568,185572,42,78,101941,12469,19474,7055,5158,43,1118,675,201051,1870,108222,14168,40,38,41,39,49370],"class_list":["post-388337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-allegedly","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-boxer","tag-burglary","tag-candy","tag-cane","tag-case","tag-continues","tag-continuing","tag-for","tag-found","tag-glen","tag-haircut","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-innes","tag-interest","tag-items","tag-linked","tag-man","tag-news","tag-of","tag-police","tag-ratstail","tag-search","tag-shorts","tag-theft","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wearing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388337","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=388337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}