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Police are investigating two ram raids overnight in Tauranga that reportedly involved the same vehicle.
A spokeswoman said police received a report of a burglary on Otumoetai Rd, between Grange Rd and Sherwood St, around 1.50am.
A vehicle was used to gain entry to Viking Dairy.
A vehicle was used to gain entry into the Viking Dairy on Otumoetai Rd overnight. Photo / Ayla Yeoman
“The offendershave taken an unknown amount of items from the premises before fleeing the area in the vehicle,” the spokeswoman said.
An On Call Repairs employee was called to the dairy this morning. He told SunLive the storefront was so damaged it would need to be rebuilt.
He said the walls and frames were broken and the door was “messed up”.
“The whole front of the shop is quite bad.”
Less than an hour before Viking Dairy was targeted, a vehicle had been used to enter BP Connect Te Puna on State Highway 2, Minden, about 1.25am, the police spokeswoman said.
