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THIEVES’ BEHAVIOUR CREATES OUTRAGE By CHRIS HARROWELL
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ocal community leaders have been quick to condemn the actions of a group of people who allegedly broke into five east Auckland businesses. A police spokesperson says officers are investigating multiple reports of burglaries committed in Howick on Tuesday morning. “At about 3.05am police responded to reports of a group
of offenders breaking into several retail addresses on Moore Street. “It’s understood the group arrived and later fled the scene in a dark SUV. “At this stage, police enquiries remain ongoing and no arrests have been made.” The stores targeted at the block of businesses are Bin Inn, Pizza Club, Fruit World, Awesome Shop and Yume Sushi. Police were still at the scene
and workers were cleaning up the mess caused during the breakins when the Times visited on Tuesday morning. Large panes of glass were broken at the entries of Pizza Club, Yume Sushi and Bin Inn. The front of several stores was cordoned off with yellow police tape. The five offenders who broke into Bin Inn were filmed in action by its security cameras.
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Footage shows the group enter the store with one of them going behind the counter. Another member of the group stands back and appears to be filming the others with a mobile phone. Bin Inn store owner Chanchal Deol says the group didn’t steal anything from his store. He says the till was open and empty and he believes they filmed their actions to upload to social media app TikTok.
“They came in and in 30 seconds they had come and gone,” Deol says. “I don’t know how they did it but they broke a glass [at the storefront]. It’s upsetting. We’ve been celebrating nine years’ business this year and we’re celebrating this month as our [store’s] birthday.” Deol says he lives close to his store and got there within two minutes of being alerted to the Turn to page 3 break-in.
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