{"id":573363,"date":"2026-08-19T03:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573363\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:26:16","slug":"black-power-member-accused-of-burglary-found-hiding-under-pile-of-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573363\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Power member accused of burglary found hiding under pile of clothes"},"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]\">Police carrying out an Auckland search warrant discovered a suspected burglar hiding under a pile of clothes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">CCTV and fingerprints discovered at the scenes of multiple central Auckland supermarket burglaries led police to a Ponsonby address on August 14. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were seeking a Black Power member, believed to be responsible for the series of aggravated assault and shoplifting offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">His partner was also wanted for shoplifting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">On arrival, police arrested a non-co-operative woman, and after some &#8220;hide-and-seek&#8221; also nabbed the man who was hidden under a pile of clothes in the wardrobe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Sergeant Tash Dallow said the pair were alleged to have stolen $9000 worth of meat and sold it in exchange for methamphetamine and cash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A 40-year-old male has been charged with shoplifting, three counts of burglary and aggravated assault. A 43-year-old woman has also been charged with shoplifting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The pair are expected to appear in Auckland District Court on October 14 and August 20 respectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police carrying out an Auckland search warrant discovered a suspected burglar hiding under a pile of clothes. CCTV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-573363","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\/573363","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=573363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}