{"id":636033,"date":"2026-10-20T06:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636033\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T06:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:50:12","slug":"half-baked-heist-grille-foils-dairy-raiders-who-take-expired-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636033\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-baked heist: Grille foils dairy raiders, who take expired bread"},"content":{"rendered":"

A West Auckland dairy owner has described hearing a “big bang” in the early hours of the morning as burglars attempted to break into his store \u2013 only to make off with expired bread. <\/p>\n

Police were called to West Harbour Superette on Luckens Rd in West Harbour shortly after 2am following reports of an attempted break-in. <\/p>\n

Store owner Jemishkumar Patel told 1News he was asleep at his home across the street when he heard a loud noise coming from the store.<\/p>\n

“It was a big, big bang,” he said. <\/p>\n

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West Harbour Supertette on Luckens Rd. Source: Google Maps (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

Patel said CCTV footage showed three offenders attempting to break inside through a bread delivery storage area located outside the shop.<\/p>\n

The offenders damaged the store’s storage bin outside, ripped off a metal panel and smashed a glass door, but were unable to get inside because of a security grille.<\/p>\n

Instead they made off with a handful of vapes and loaves of bread \u2014 including expired bread \u2014 which been left outside for a delivery driver to collect. <\/p>\n

Patel said he and his cousin rushed to the store after checking the CCTV footage, but the offenders had already fled.<\/p>\n

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The damaged storage area outside West Harbour Superette. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t sleep this morning after it happened, because I had to sort out all the things to fix,” he said. <\/p>\n

The store was able to open as normal today, Patel said, and nobody was hurt in the incident. <\/p>\n

Waitemat\u0101 West Area Response Manager Senior Sergeant Jon Winthrop said the trio allegedly arrived at the dairy in a Toyota.<\/p>\n

The police Eagle helicopter located the vehicle shortly afterwards, allowing officers to deploy road spikes on Widmore Dr.<\/p>\n

Getaway vehicle lost headway, rolled back into patrol car<\/p>\n

Winthrop said the vehicle continued through Henderson before losing speed while travelling uphill. <\/p>\n

“The vehicle has subsequently come to a stop and rolled back into a patrol car, causing very minor damage and thankfully not injuring anyone,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Three occupants were quickly taken into custody.”<\/p>\n

Winthrop said one of the alleged offenders was found in possession of a machete. <\/p>\n

A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old were charged with aggravated burglary and vehicle-related offences, while an 18-year-old man faced charges including aggravated burglary and possession of an offensive weapon.<\/p>\n

The three were due to appear in the Wait\u0101kere District and Youth Courts next week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Auckland dairy owner has described hearing a “big bang” in the early hours of the morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,144,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-636033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-food-drink","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636033","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=636033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}