{"id":634943,"date":"2026-10-19T04:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634943\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T04:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:24:09","slug":"phone-found-with-intimate-recordings-from-auckland-changing-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634943\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone found with intimate recordings from Auckland changing rooms"},"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 phone search during an unrelated police investigation has uncovered intimate visual recordings from changing rooms at a popular Auckland beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Acting Detective Sergeant Samir Khan of Auckland City West CIB said officers were dealing with an Auckland man over an unrelated matter earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">His mobile phones were taken as part of the probe and, during the search, it&#8217;s alleged child sex abuse material was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;A large number of intimate visual recordings were also located on devices,&#8221; Khan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We have carried out further enquiries into the intimate visual recordings and established that approximately half of the recordings were created in the changing rooms at Mission Bay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Khan said police were aware of previous reporting, matching this type of behaviour, in 2024. &#8220;But, at this stage, we have not identified any of the victims in that footage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Khan said the 43-year-old faced two counts of possessing objectionable material with knowledge, as well as 72 counts of possessing an intimate visual recording.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He has been remanded in custody after appearing in Auckland District Court, and due to appear next in December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A phone search during an unrelated police investigation has uncovered intimate visual recordings from changing rooms at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-634943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634943","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=634943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}