{"id":557336,"date":"2026-08-03T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557336\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:49:10","slug":"whakatane-jewellery-store-targeted-in-alleged-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557336\/","title":{"rendered":"Whakat\u0101ne jewellery store targeted in alleged robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police spiked it at the Old Taup\u014d Rd and Devon St roundabout, and had three people in custody and were seeking a fourth, the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n

Georgia Cobb, whose family owns Renshaws Showcase Jewellers, told the Rotorua Daily Post that men allegedly carrying \u201cmultiple different weapons\u201d had \u201csmashed up\u201d the store\u2019s windows and stolen a \u201cgood amount\u201d of stock.<\/p>\n

She arrived just after 4pm to find the store\u2019s staff safe but \u201cshaken up\u201d.<\/p>\n

The longstanding family-owned jewellery business was previously hit in an early-morning ram raid in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other jewellery stores on The Strand have also faced serious retail crime incidents, leading the Michael Hill Jeweller shop to close<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

Annabel Reid<\/a> is a multimedia journalist for the Bay of Plenty Times and the Rotorua Daily Post, based in Rotorua. Originally from Hawke\u2019s Bay, she has a Bachelor of Communications from the University of Canterbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police spiked it at the Old Taup\u014d Rd and Devon St roundabout, and had three people in custody…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1554,78,16285,111,43,139,69,27517,2735,1458,2240],"class_list":["post-557336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alleged","tag-in","tag-jewellery","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-robbery","tag-store","tag-targeted","tag-whakatne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557336","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=557336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}