{"id":635079,"date":"2026-10-19T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635079\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:00:09","slug":"gang-member-charged-with-10000-shoplifting-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635079\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang member charged with $10,000 shoplifting spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Auckland gang member was allegedly caught driving a stolen vehicle after swiping bottles of alcohol from a Henderson liquor store.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report of the shoplifting incident on Friday afternoon and spotted the vehicle 15 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Waitemat\u0101 West Area response manager senior sergeant Jon Winthrop said the vehicle was then pulled over and inspected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man has initially provided false details before a search of the vehicle located three bottles of alcohol,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old man was also discovered to be driving a stolen vehicle when police conducted further checks, police allege. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers also conducted checks on the vehicle&#8217;s registration number and found that it did not match the vehicle&#8217;s make and model,&#8221; Winthrop said.<\/p>\n<p>He was additionally found to be in breach of his bail and had 13 separate incidents of shoplifting against him.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with 13 counts of shoplifting totalling over $10,000, as well as other charges. <\/p>\n<p>He is set to appear in Wait\u0101kere District Court court today after being remanded in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland gang member was allegedly caught driving a stolen vehicle after swiping bottles of alcohol from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635080,"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-635079","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\/635079","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=635079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}