Focus: Five Auckland businesses targeted in ram raids and smash-and-grabs overnight
Police were kept busy overnight after five businesses were targeted in ram raids and smash-and-grab burglaries. Video / NZ Herald
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A group of offenders armed with weapons entered the Chartwell store.
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New community movement Whangārei Stand Up gets a respected leader to front the campaign.
Watch: Tradie’s ‘sickening’ act caught on camera
He appears to fix the toilet with a kitchen utensil, then puts it back where he found it.
Hamilton adult store worker says shoplifter hit her with car
Retail worker Alicia Moke says theft's become worse in the six years she’s worked there.
Bank kidnapping: Man threatened to 'blow the building up' in hour-long ordeal
The man accused of holding people captive inside Rotorua's BNZ has pleaded guilty.
Landlord says $13.8m street upgrade 'highway for criminals'
The design and layout also helped criminals because signs and posts had been removed.
14-year-old arrested after ram-raid on North Shore jewellery store
The store was raided on Sunday morning, a week after fog cannons were installed.
Wild night of Hamilton street racing includes assault, stolen car and a paintball gun
A man who complained to the group was attacked and had his car stolen, police say.
Man arrested after series of aggravated robberies in Canterbury
A bank, a supermarket and a dairy have recently been targeted in the region.
Teen among two arrested after aggravated robbery of Auckland school pupils
The students were robbed by a gun-wielding trio in rural Auckland last month.
Teen admits link to three smash-and-grabs, including $700k heist
Bayley Christensen is set to be sentenced in Christchurch in June.
Spark retail outlet in Napier hit by early-morning break-in
Display models had been ripped out of security sockets.
‘Can’t understand the lack of respect’: Ram-raiders hit gift shop owned by volunteer fire chief
‘Armful’ of watches taken, but jewellery ignored after stolen ute used to smash grille.
Northland news in brief: Dangerous driving charge; and shed fire suspicious
News snippets from across Northland and the surrounds.
Police appeal for information after aggravated robbery in Christchurch
Around 10:55am, a man entered a store on Normans Road with a weapon.
Watch: Police arrest six teenagers after Auckland ram-raid chase
A bystander said she saw police pulling the youths from the vehicle and handcuffing them.
Watch: Police release footage of 'cowardly' Hamilton superette robbery
The offenders stole cash from the till and fled the scene in a stolen vehicle.
Disgusted! Four defibrillators stolen in Napier
At least four life-saving defibrillators were stolen in Napier in three weeks.
Thirteen-year-old among youths arrested for spree of armed robberies
Four teens were arrested after cash and cigarettes were stolen from a Waikato supermarket.
Police hunting teen ram-raiders who smashed into Auckland dairy
Ram raiders plough through metal grill on dairy in early morning smash-and-grab.
'Incredibly frightening:' Solo mum afraid of entering shops after dairy robbery
The woman and her daughter were in a dairy when a masked man told her to fill a backpack.
Watch: CCTV footage captures large-scale ramraid of Christchurch vape shop
Shocking CCTV footage captures the large-scale ramraid of a local vape shop. Video / Supplied
Jo Raphael: Elderly abuse is despicable, predatory and selfish
Because of love and family ties, the elderly are often silent victims.
Chamber boss: Business break-ins will be an election issue
The public needs a sense of safety to encourage them to keep supporting local businesses.
Meth-addicted serial shoplifter punched supermarket worker in face
A prolific shoplifter with a methamphetamine habit has been sent to jail.
People 'out of pocket' after Facebook Marketplace scams
“Stop, take a step back, take a deep breath, think about it."
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Looting from red-stickered homes a despicable act
"Hard to believe anyone would try looting homes made uninhabitable by Cyclone Gabrielle"
Life-long thief took child on shoplifting outing
Woman, 41, shoplifting since age 14, told "it should end today".
'It's a time capsule': Wallet stolen 26 years ago found under storm-damaged tree
Retired Central Hawke’s Bay farmer Michael Hardy had long forgotten the theft.
'Unprecedented': School pupils robbed by gun-wielding trio, offenders at large
Two pupils were robbed after they disembarked a school bus. The offenders are at large.
Hammer-wielding youths rob liquor store, teachers not done & Pasifika festival returns | Focus Morning Bulletin 17 March, 2023
Shock after primary-school kids raid liquor store, teachers threaten further strike action and the Government explores raising benefit increases in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald