{"id":7668,"date":"2023-09-06T05:24:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7668"},"modified":"2023-09-06T05:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:24:21","slug":"police-obtain-warrant-to-arrest-tom-phillips-after-aggravated-robbery-of-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7668","title":{"rendered":"Police obtain warrant to arrest Tom Phillips after aggravated robbery of bank"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Missing Marokopa man Tom Phillips has a warrant out for his arrest after he was linked to a bank robbery in May, police say.<\/p>\n

Phillips has been charged with aggravated robbery, aggravated wounding and unlawfully possessing a firearm, Acting Detective Inspector Andrew Saunders said.<\/p>\n

In May two people, both armed, entered a bank on Rora Street, Te Kuiti and demanded cash, Saunders said.<\/p>\n

They fled the scene on a black, farm-style motorbike.<\/p>\n

The other person involved was yet to be identified by police.<\/p>\n

Police urge the public to report any sightings of Phillips on 111 quoting file number 230516\/7295 or via dedicated email address – op.curly@police.govt.nz.<\/p>\n

“We also urge people not to take action themselves as Mr Phillips potentially still has firearms in his possession.<\/p>\n

“Additionally, police remain concerned about the welfare of the Phillips children, who were officially reported as missing in December 2021.”<\/p>\n

Phillips and his three children Jayda, 10, Maverick, 8, and Ember, 7 were reported missing from Marokopa by family on 18 January, 2022. It was not the first time Phillips had taken the children and disappeared.<\/p>\n

Police earlier said Phillips’ second disappearance breached a parenting order and there was a warrant out for his arrest after he failed to appear in court in relation to their first disappearance in September 2021.<\/p>\n

His first disappearance with the children sparked an extensive search.<\/p>\n

In August police said they\u00a0believed Phillips was setting up a campsite<\/a>\u00a0after he was spotted buying things from Bunnings.<\/p>\n

Phillips was seen several times by Waikato locals earlier in August – the first confirmed sightings of him since early last year. His children were not with him.<\/p>\n

Police had previously\u00a0appealed for sightings<\/a>\u00a0of a number of motorbikes connected with the case as well as a ute, which had\u00a0since been found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Missing Marokopa man Tom Phillips has a warrant out for his arrest after he was linked to a bank robbery in May, police say. Phillips has been charged with aggravated robbery, aggravated wounding and unlawfully possessing a firearm, Acting Detective Inspector Andrew Saunders said. In May two people, both armed, entered a bank on Rora […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7670,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions\/7670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}