{"id":467481,"date":"2026-06-08T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467481\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:44:08","slug":"auckland-man-allegedly-stole-hundreds-of-chocolate-worth-more-than-9000-from-various-supermarkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467481\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland man allegedly stole hundreds of chocolate worth more than $9000 from various supermarkets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>8 Jun, 2026 10:03 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An Auckland man has been charged with stealing hundreds of chocolate bars worth more than $9000 from supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Auckland city west area prevention manager Inspector Wayne Kitcher said the 35-year-old was taken into custody on the weekend and faces 21 charges, with 19 relating to various shoplifting incidents across the<br \/>\n         city.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is an example of some exceptional police work, particularly by one of our intelligence officers, which led to this arrest,\u201d Kitcher said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt appears this person has allegedly targeted chocolate from various supermarkets across the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Kitcher said in one instance the man allegedly stole more than $3000 worth of confectionery from a Te Atat\u016b supermarket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 8 Jun, 2026 10:03 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27303,7818,51,6128,1558,13239,224,71,24176,5158,130,111,43,139,69,1118,4744,1346,7227,131,82855,102,19985],"class_list":["post-467481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-27303","tag-allegedly","tag-auckland","tag-bars","tag-been","tag-charged","tag-chocolate","tag-from","tag-hundreds","tag-man","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-stealing","tag-stole","tag-supermarkets","tag-than","tag-various","tag-with","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467481","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=467481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}