Auckland shop owners hit with a ram-raid and an armed hold-up in the past week are sick of teenagers getting away with violent crimes and boasting about it on social media. In the suburb of Sandringham one shop owner and his wife had a knife pulled on them by two school-aged girls yesterday.
Within a 200-metre stretch of the village shops - three different stores are boarded up, having been broken into or ram-raided in the last fortnight.
In one case the get away car had an 11-year-old driver.
On Wednesday police told Checkpoint stolen vehicles are being used to steal tobacco, vapes and alcohol - in many cases by teenagers who are repeat offenders.
