{"id":592562,"date":"2026-09-07T04:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592562\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T04:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:12:09","slug":"east-auckland-bike-thefts-five-bicycles-recovered-after-three-teens-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592562\/","title":{"rendered":"East Auckland bike thefts: Five bicycles recovered after three teens caught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe youths rode off at speed towards Lloyd Elsmore Park, however, officers blocked in the offenders and quickly took them into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe bicycle stolen during the first incident was recovered and while staff were dealing with the two alleged offenders, a parent of one of the victims arrived at the location and assisted in identifying a third offender within the park, who was also taken into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">He said police discovered a  third alleged offender had stolen a bicycle from a 12-year-old in the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA total of five bicycles were seized from the three alleged offenders and returned to the victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis was a cowardly act, and this sort of behaviour will not be tolerated within our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Three people, aged 15, have been referred to Youth Aid Services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe youths rode off at speed towards Lloyd Elsmore Park, however, officers blocked in the offenders and quickly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7818,51,1558,292054,1070,9525,3806,1342,305,111,43,139,69,8143,384,675,10903,8694,4743,1458,672,14168,46870,1529,4741],"class_list":["post-592562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-bicycles","tag-bike","tag-caught","tag-east","tag-five","tag-have","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-people","tag-police","tag-popular","tag-recovered","tag-spree","tag-targeted","tag-teens","tag-theft","tag-thefts","tag-three","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592562","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=592562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}