5 Sep 2023

Shopping centre in Thames targeted by ram raid

9:01 am on 5 September 2023
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Police said items were taken from one shop in the centre. Photo: RNZ / Patrice Allen

A shopping centre in Thames has been targeted by a ram raid.

Police were alerted at 3am to a car found abandoned in the Mary Street shopping centre entrance.

Initial enquiries indicated one store in the shopping centre was entered, and a number of items taken, they said.

Police said the car left at the shopping centre had earlier been stolen.