Overview
- Staff at Partridge Jewellers reported on Nov. 28 that a customer picked up a Fabergé x 007 Octopussy locket and swallowed it, and officers arrested a 32‑year‑old inside the store minutes later.
- Court documents value the pendant at NZ$33,585 and describe it as 18ct yellow gold with green guilloché enamel set with 60 white diamonds and 15 blue sapphires.
- Police say the pendant has not been recovered and, after a medical assessment, an officer is assigned to constantly monitor the accused under a duty of care.
- The man has been charged with theft, was remanded in custody without entering a plea, and is scheduled to reappear in Auckland District Court on Dec. 8.
- Charge sheets also link him to an alleged iPad theft at the same store on Nov. 12 and to cat litter and flea treatment taken from a private address the next day.