{"id":540258,"date":"2026-07-23T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540258\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:59:09","slug":"two-charged-over-facebook-marketplace-robbery-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540258\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged over Facebook Marketplace robbery in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been charged after an alleged aggravated robbery in Howick this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the incident on Union Rd 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.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, police said the two men appeared in Manukau District Court charged with unlawfully possessing a firearm, unlawfully possessing ammunition and aggravated robbery with a firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been charged after an alleged aggravated robbery in Howick this afternoon. Police were called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-540258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","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\/540258","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=540258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540258\/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=540258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}