A 90-minute crime spree caused extensive damage to several Christchurch businesses early today, police say.<\/p>\n
Six businesses, including liquor stores and a pharmacy, were targeted by thieves.<\/p>\n
Senior Sergeant Stephen McDaniel said they believed the break-ins may be linked, and they were making inquiries to work out what had been taken from the properties.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe value of what has been stolen will not come close to the damage that\u2019s been caused to hard-working businesses,\u201d Snr Sgt McDaniel said this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Two stolen vehicles were involved in the first three break-ins, which took place on Ensign St about 5.40am.<\/p>\n
One of the cars was abandoned a short time later after being used to gain entry to a Wigram liquor store.<\/p>\n
Following another burglary on Hawke St about 6.40am, a suspect vehicle was seen on QEII Drive, but officers opted not to pursue it due to dangerous driving behaviour.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was later found abandoned on Dunbarton St in Redwood about 7.10am, near where another vehicle was reported stolen.<\/p>\n
Snr Sgt McDaniel said police wanted to hear from anyone with dashcam footage, video or information that could help their investigation.<\/p>\n
\u00a0– Police 105 or online at 105.police.govt.nz, reference number P066899255, or via CrimeStoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n
\u00a0– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 90-minute crime spree caused extensive damage to several Christchurch businesses early today, police say. Six businesses, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-509402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/509402","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=509402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}