Police are seeking information following an “aggravated burglary” in Kensington, Whang\u0101rei at around 6.30pm last night. <\/p>\n
A group of males, armed with what appeared to be a machete and hammer, attempted to enter a dairy on Mill Rd. <\/p>\n
Detective Senior Sergeant Shane Pilmer, Northland CIB, said the group took a number of items before the store keeper activated a fog cannon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThankfully no one was injured,” he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe offenders have then fled in a stolen grey 2020 Mitsubishi Pajero Station wagon, which officers located abandoned in Otangarei a short time later.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pilmer said the vehicle has since been towed for forensic examination, however the police believed it was stolen in the early hours of Wednesday from the Kensington area.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now appealing to anyone who witnessed anything in the area at the time to please contact police,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cPolice would also like to hear from anyone who may have information about any sightings of this vehicle before or after the aggravated burglary.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pilmer said reminded dairy owners to be vigilant, particularly around closing times, for any suspicious activity or vehicles.<\/p>\n
The police also urge members of the public to phone 111 immediately if they observe any suspicious behaviour outside dairies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are seeking information following an “aggravated burglary” in Kensington, Whang\u0101rei at around 6.30pm last night. A group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-471719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471719","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=471719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}