{"id":464141,"date":"2026-06-06T15:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464141\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:18:32","slug":"stolen-dargaville-bike-returned-after-community-and-police-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464141\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Dargaville bike returned after community and police effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe community quickly stepped in to support him, sharing posts online to help locate the bike, starting a fundraiser, and even loaning him a replacement bike in the interim.\u201d<\/p>\n

CCTV footage from around the area was reviewed, identifying a youth riding away on the bike, taking the helmet as well.<\/p>\n

Inquiries led police to a Dargaville address, where the bike was found and returned to Nichols.<\/p>\n

\u201cReturning stolen property is always a rewarding outcome for police, Dalbeth said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was just so pleased to see his bike \u2013 he was actually speechless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nichols described discovering his bike was missing as \u201cworrying and shocking\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an old bike, but it gets me everywhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to say thanks to police for finding it \u2026 I\u2019m just bummed about not getting the helmet back.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also thanked members of the public for their support.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks for caring about my stolen bike and for loaning me one.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a quick mechanical check, Nichols is once again back on the road around Dargaville.<\/p>\n

A 14-year-old will be referred to Youth Aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe community quickly stepped in to support him, sharing posts online to help locate the bike, starting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,1070,1259,23155,3989,14768,8454,97993,111,43,139,69,2847,675,55233,235208,12971,6327,19255,4736,112,134937,4767],"class_list":["post-464141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-bike","tag-community","tag-dargaville","tag-effort","tag-every","tag-including","tag-mode","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-only","tag-police","tag-pride","tag-relies","tag-returned","tag-rugby","tag-sidelines","tag-stolen","tag-transport","tag-volunteering","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464141","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=464141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}