{"id":604080,"date":"2026-09-18T07:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604080\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:54:10","slug":"stolen-handbag-sparks-urgent-hunt-for-potentially-lethal-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604080\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen handbag sparks urgent hunt for potentially lethal medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for a potentially lethal medication in a handbag that was stolen from a car in Auckland. <\/p>\n<p>The medication \u2014 known as Pentobarbital \u2014 was the drug most commonly used to euthanise, and could have a lethal effect if ingested by humans or animals. <\/p>\n<p>Auckland City CIB Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Greaves said the medication provided by a vet was inside a handbag which was stolen from a vehicle parked in Glendowie on Wednesday, September 16. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The medication is in liquid form and was inside a pink handbag,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s likely the person has mistakenly taken the medication without knowing it was inside the bag, and we are asking for it to be handed in as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greaves said police were treating the matter as a priority, and inquiries had so far been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our main concern is that the person who took this item, or potentially gives it to someone else, does not know what they are in possession of.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged anyone in possession of the bagged item to return it immediately, given the risk.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information could contact police online, through 105, or anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a potentially lethal medication in a handbag that was stolen from a car in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-604080","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\/604080","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=604080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}