A sticky-fingered thief almost bagged nearly $1000 worth of groceries before Police tracked him down in Auckland last week.
It’s led to Police laying charges for a wider spate of offending valued at over $10,000.
At around 9am on Saturday 24 May Police received a report of a male shoplifting from a Manukau supermarket.
“This male has taken a large amount of meat products and fled the scene in a vehicle,” Counties Manukau Central Area Prevention Manager Inspector Warrick Adkin says.
Officers attending the incident made enquiries into the vehicle and discovered the same male had been involved in a shoplifting event at a Three Kings supermarket only an hour earlier.
“Police Officers immediately responded in an attempt to locate this male and the vehicle,” Inspector Adkin says.
“Not long after, the vehicle was located a short distance away, as it was about to enter State Highway 20.”
Police successfully stopped the vehicle and took the alleged offender into custody.
Inside the vehicle, approximately $800 worth of groceries were located, which were returned to the store.
“Further enquiries revealed this male has allegedly been involved in numerous shoplifting or theft incidents this year, totalling several thousand dollars,” says Inspector Adkin.
“We are pleased to have brought this spree to an end and for this male to be held accountable for his actions. We will not tolerate such brazen criminal offending.”
A 17-year-old appeared in the Manukau Youth Court on May 24 charged with multiple shoplifting.
$1000 worth of meat in 3 baskets? Who’s the real criminal here
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Great job police!
Now I’d like to bring to your attention some more grocerie thief’s. The other day at the supermarket after I came through the checkout I felt like I had been robbed 😂
Who creates these stories? Is this a joke?
““Police Officers immediately responded in an attempt to locate this male and the vehicle,” Inspector Adkin says. “Not long after, the vehicle was located a short distance away, as it was about to enter State Highway 20 police successfully stopped the vehicle and took the alleged offender into custody.”
WTH? Is this devised by a primary pupil? Does police read what they write?
It’s standard police prose.
They always kill me with the past/present tense flip flops.
“A male has entered the property, and then he has stolen stuff, and then we has chased him, and then he was arrested.”
Just write it all in the past tense as if you’re telling the story of something that already occurred (because you are) 🤦♂️
The cops obviously must have some kind of connection to this grocery store as this happens at the one near where my mother lives almost daily and the cops never show up.
Needs to be over $500-00