An east Auckland woman facing numerous theft charges is among the alleged offenders arrested by local police in recent weeks.

Howick Police community services supervisor, sergeant Brett Meale, says the 25-yer-old woman, who lives in Howick, was arrested most recently on April 3 for allegedly breaching her bail.

“In the last few months she’s been targeting a lot of our retail stores around the Counties Manukau East area and further afield in Auckland as well,” Meale says.

“We were able to identify her through CCTV.

“She was originally arrested on some charges and she continued to offend.

“My staff recently charged her with another 19 shoplifting incidents and four trespassing incidents.

“She’s now before the courts on 30 theft charges and eight trespassing charges and one aggravated assault.

“She allegedly assaulted a staff member at one of the shops as she was leaving.”

The items the woman allegedly stole would vary but included a lot of cosmetic products. She’s currently on bail.

Meale says police also recently caught two men who had stolen items from the Beachlands Woolworths during the early evening of March 21.

“The males seen shoplifting from the store. They left in a vehicle and police stopped it.

“Police recovered the stolen property.”

He says following the incident a 26-year-old male from Manurewa and a 27-year-old male from Papakura have been referred to the police’s Te Pae Oranga Iwi Community Panels.

In a third recent incident, Meale says a group of people travelling in a Subaru vehicle with a stolen registration licence plate attached to it were stopped in east Auckland on March 24.

Three females who were in the vehicle were arrested and are facing various charges.

A 33-year-old woman from Kaitaia was charged with assaulting a security guard at a Botany supermarket two days prior as well as several historic theft matters, Meale says.

“In the vehicle also was a 25-year-old female from Kaitaia who was arrested for breaching her bail conditions.

“The driver, a 35-year-old female from Manurewa, was arrested for driving while disqualified.”

The fourth recent incident involved what Meale describes as a spate of burglaries in the East Tamaki industrial area.

“Our tactical crime unit managed to identify the suspect, who was subsequently located in Whangarei.

“He was charged with 13 burglaries, a robbery, and receiving stolen property.

“A female, aged 30, was with him. She’s charged with burglary and receiving stolen property.”