{"id":75454,"date":"2025-12-02T12:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/02\/new-zealand-man-charged-allegedly-swallowing-faberge-james-bond-pendant"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:51:39","slug":"man-charged-with-theft-after-allegedly-swallowing-faberge-pendant-in-jewellery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75454","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with theft after allegedly swallowing Faberg\u00e9 pendant in jewellery store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand police allege 32-year-old ingested the 18-karat gold egg \u2013 a James Bond Octopussy locket \u2013 and say the object has \u2018not yet been recovered\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand man has been charged with theft after allegedly swallowing a Faberg\u00e9 James Bond Octopussy egg pendant worth more than $33,500 (US$19,200).<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a central Auckland jewellery store, Partridge Jewellers, on Friday afternoon after staff reported a man had allegedly picked up the pendant and swallowed it, said Grae Anderson, the city\u2019s central area commander.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/02\/new-zealand-man-charged-allegedly-swallowing-faberge-james-bond-pendant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand police allege 32-year-old ingested the 18-karat gold egg \u2013 a James Bond Octopussy locket \u2013 and say the object has \u2018not yet been recovered\u2019A New Zealand man has been charged with theft after allegedly swallowing a Faberg\u00e9 James Bond Octopuss&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75455,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75454\/revisions\/75455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}