27 Jan 2024

New World supermarket security guard stabbed in Auckland

9:01 pm on 27 January 2024
A police car

File photo. Photo: RNZ / Marika Khabazi

A security guard has been stabbed after stopping a suspected shoplifter in Auckland this afternoon.

The police were called to a New World supermarket on May Road in Mount Roskill at 3:40pm, after the guard was attacked.

The incident happened after the guard tried to stop a suspected shoplifter leaving the store.

A 25-year-old man was arrested Saturday evening and charged with intent to injure, police said.

The security guard was treated at the scene.