{"id":437337,"date":"2026-05-20T21:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/437337\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:55:12","slug":"man-charged-after-allegedly-stealing-suv-with-child-in-front-seat-outside-woolworths-ponsonby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/437337\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after allegedly stealing SUV with child in front seat outside Woolworths Ponsonby"},"content":{"rendered":"The boy was physically unharmed. <\/p>\n
Woolworths Ponsonby is the only supermarket on the street. <\/p>\n
The vehicle was then driven off at speed, Plunkett said. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnits responded into the area, and the Eagle helicopter located the vehicle abandoned on Commercial Rd in Arch Hill a short time later.\u201d <\/p>\n
Around the same time, police received calls about a man jumping fences in the same suburb. <\/p>\n
After identifying a person of interest, a police camera operator spotted the man walking on Karangahape Rd on CCTV. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnits responded to apprehend this man, and he was arrested,\u201d Plunkett said. <\/p>\n
A concealed knife and an imitation firearm were found on his person. <\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to acknowledge all our staff\u2019s exceptional response to this incident last night, which would have been incredibly startling for the young boy.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 31-year-old man will appear in the Auckland District Court today.<\/p>\n
He has been charged with unlawfully carrying an imitation firearm, possessing an offensive weapon, unlawfully taking a motor vehicle and resisting police, Plunkett said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boy was physically unharmed. Woolworths Ponsonby is the only supermarket on the street. The vehicle was then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7818,51,1558,13239,2511,1668,78,2944,5158,111,43,139,69,14727,26227,26890,7248,4744,97,17620,6845,102,92],"class_list":["post-437337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-charged","tag-child","tag-front","tag-in","tag-inside","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outside","tag-parked","tag-ponsonby","tag-seat","tag-stealing","tag-supermarket","tag-suv","tag-vehicle","tag-with","tag-woolworths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437337","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=437337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}