{"id":556908,"date":"2026-08-03T01:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556908\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:34:11","slug":"machete-wielding-man-threatens-staff-robs-auckland-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556908\/","title":{"rendered":"Machete-wielding man threatens staff, robs Auckland restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A machete-wielding man threatened staff and demanded money at a restaurant on Auckland&#8217;s North Shore last night, with police working to locate the offender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said the aggravated robbery took place at a restaurant on Hinemoa St at around 8.45pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;An unknown offender has entered a Hinemoa Street premises with what appeared to be a machete,&#8221; said acting Detective Inspector Megan Goldie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;The man has threatened staff and made demands for money before leaving prior to police arrival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Money was taken during the incident, police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were conducting a &#8220;number of inquiries to identify and locate the person responsible&#8221;, Goldie said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Anyone with relevant information that can assist the investigation can update Police online now or call 105 using the reference number P067191640.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including another earthquake wakes thousands, a Kiwi runner sets an ultramarathon record, and the lucky escape for a New York scooter rider. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A machete-wielding man threatened staff and demanded money at a restaurant on Auckland&#8217;s North Shore last night, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-556908","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\/556908","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=556908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}