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Police track down & return stolen presents

Author
Jacqui Stanford,
Publish Date
Sat, 20 Dec 2014, 6:55PM
(Photo: Supplied)
(Photo: Supplied)

Police track down & return stolen presents

Author
Jacqui Stanford,
Publish Date
Sat, 20 Dec 2014, 6:55PM

A burgled Auckland family have their Christmas presents back after police found a man, in the same neighbourhood, with the haul in his possession.

The family woke up this morning in their Freeman's Bay home to find they had been cleaned out of gifts and electronic equipment.

This included a cell phone, whose owner received a notification from Google today that someone was trying to establish an account on it, in another name.

Police tracked that person down, in the same suburb, and have since returned all the presents and belongings to the family.

Auckland Central Area Commander Inspector Jill Rogers says the officers took as much pleasure out of returning the haul as the family did from having it back.

A 44-year-old Freeman's Bay man has been arrested will stay in custody until he appears in the Auckland District Court on Monday charged with burglary.

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