{"id":51156,"date":"2025-09-30T01:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/51156\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:37:10","slug":"police-arrest-man-after-palmerston-north-plaza-shopper-jewellery-snatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/51156\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest man after Palmerston North Plaza shopper jewellery snatch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The victim then had their jewellery returned to them. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe victim in this matter was understandably shaken but was not injured,\u201d said acting Detective Sergeant Richard How.<\/p>\n

\u201dIt is great to get such a quick arrest for them and members of the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice want to remind people that their safety is our priority. Anyone that creates danger in the community will be held to account\u201d.<\/p>\n

A 29-year-old man was due to appear in the Palmerston North District Court on October 2 on a robbery charge. <\/p>\n

Elsewhere, police are asking the Hamilton public to help them find a man they believe has committed a series of aggravated robberies and used an e-scooter as a getaway vehicle<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"AA man police believe has been committing armed robberies in Hamilton. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

Police said the man arrived on a black e-scooter armed with a knife, demanding money, and targeted three food outlets in the Dinsdale Shopping Centre. <\/p>\n

\u201cOn September 24, he robbed one shop; on September 25, he robbed two shops before fleeing the scenes on the e-scooter,\u201d Detective Sergeant Matt Lee said. \u201cDuring the second robbery, a victim was assaulted by the male.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police believed the robberies were carried out by the same person and said anyone with information should call 105 and quote file number 250924\/6144.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim then had their jewellery returned to them. \u201cThe victim in this matter was understandably shaken but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,14466,11924,1863,1558,44156,9436,23783,13800,1553,16285,5158,111,43,139,529,22258,69,6292,44153,675,18556,44154,44155,4736,102],"class_list":["post-51156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-back","tag-been","tag-bystanders","tag-chase","tag-downtown","tag-giving","tag-item","tag-jewellery","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-norths","tag-nz","tag-palmerston","tag-plaza","tag-police","tag-shopper","tag-snatch","tag-snatching","tag-stolen","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51156","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=51156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}