Two teenagers face charges after a group allegedly armed with a knife and a crowbar raided a Whang\u0101rei dairy yesterday before members of the public stopped them getting away in a stolen car.<\/p>\n
Police said three offenders pulled up outside the Crawford Cres store in the suburb of Te Kamo at about 10.40am yesterday in a Nissan station wagon. <\/p>\n
The car had allegedly been stolen from the same street in the early hours of that morning.<\/p>\n
Inspector Maria Nordstrom said the group allegedly entered the store carrying a knife and a crowbar.<\/p>\n
“The males jumped across the counter and broke into a cigarette locker,” she said.<\/p>\n
“A worker was able to leave the store and was understandably shaken, but thankfully uninjured.”<\/p>\n
The group spent about a minute inside before leaving with the cigarettes and trying to get back into the stolen car.<\/p>\n
Members of the public stepped in, and the trio ran off on foot instead, dropping a bag of cigarettes as they went.<\/p>\n
A police dog unit tracked the group to a residential garage a short distance away, which police allege they had broken into. Officers took two of the suspects into custody and recovered some of the stolen property.<\/p>\n
Nordstrom thanked those who stepped in.<\/p>\n
“Police thank the brave members of the public who attempted to stop this group.<\/p>\n
“It is clear that, like police, our community has no tolerance for offending that targets local retailers and compromises their safety.”<\/p>\n
Two males, aged 17 and 18, were due to appear in the Whang\u0101rei Youth Court today on charges of aggravated burglary, unlawfully getting into a motor vehicle and unlawfully being in an enclosed yard or area.<\/p>\n
Police said they were following positive lines of enquiry to find the third offender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenagers face charges after a group allegedly armed with a knife and a crowbar raided a Whang\u0101rei…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,1067,69],"class_list":["post-637203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637203","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=637203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}