{"id":777086,"date":"2026-09-20T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777086\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:34:24","slug":"man-threatened-staff-after-alleged-steak-theft-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777086\/","title":{"rendered":"Man &#8216;threatened&#8217; staff after alleged steak theft attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The incident took place at M&amp;S in Station Road at around 4pm on Wednesday, August 26.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The man placed steaks into a bag and tried to leave without paying.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Police are looking to identify this man who allegedly tried to steal steak and &#8216;acted in a threatening way&#8217; towards M&amp;S staff (Image: Hampshire Police)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  When challenged by a member of staff, he reportedly acted in a threatening manner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The food was returned, but the packaging was damaged and the items could not be sold.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Hampshire Police have released an image of a man they wish to speak to in connection with the incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We believe the man in the image can help us with our investigation and would urge him, or anyone who knows his identity, to get in touch with us.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anyone with information is asked to call 101, quoting reference 44260417503.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Alternatively, information can be submitted via the Hampshire Police website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident took place at M&amp;S in Station Road at around 4pm on Wednesday, August 26. The man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}