{"id":538323,"date":"2026-07-22T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538323\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:09:11","slug":"two-in-custody-over-facebook-marketplace-robbery-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538323\/","title":{"rendered":"Two in custody over Facebook Marketplace robbery in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are in custody after an alleged aggravated robbery in Howick this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police said it was called to the incident on Union Road at about 2.45pm, after a report a person held a firearm during a Facebook Marketplace transaction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The offender fled the scene on foot but was shortly picked up by a vehicle,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thankfully, the victim was uninjured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the assistance of the Eagle helicopter, police located the vehicle in Glen Innes.<\/p>\n<p>Two 19-year-old males were then arrested. Police added charges were pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are in custody after an alleged aggravated robbery in Howick this afternoon. Police said it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-538323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538323","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=538323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}