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The safe allegedly stolen from the home. Image \/ via Facebook<\/p>\nSeveral firearms are unaccounted for after thieves allegedly broke into a northern Tasmania home and made off with an entire gun safe.<\/p>\n
Police say the burglary allegedly occurred at a residence on William Street in Beaconsfield on Thursday morning while no one was home.<\/p>\n
The offenders allegedly removed a large firearms safe from the property and loaded it into the homeowner\u2019s Toyota Hilux before fleeing the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
The stolen 4WD was located burnt out on Holwell Road, Frankford, around 6:40am on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The empty safe was later discovered dumped in a ditch on the same road, with its door \u201ccut or torn off\u201d.<\/p>\n
The safe allegedly stolen from the home. Image \/ via Facebook<\/p>\n
The firearms that had been stored inside have not been recovered. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n
Posting on social media, homeowner Todd Russell described the break-in as a \u201ctargeted attack\u201d and called on those responsible to return personal items taken from the safe that hold sentimental value.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like them back, no questions [asked],\u201d Russell wrote, adding that knowing someone had invaded his privacy was \u201cabsolutely disgusting\u201d.<\/p>\n
A Tasmania Police spokesperson said investigations were continuing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone who witnessed suspicious behaviour in William St, Beaconsfield, on Thursday morning or has CCTV or dashcam footage from the street between 5am and 6:30am, is asked to contact police on 131 444 or report anonymously to Crime Stoppers,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice would also like to speak with anyone who observed people acting in a suspicious manner on Holwell Road around 6:40am to 7:30am on Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several firearms are unaccounted for after thieves allegedly broke into a northern Tasmania home and made off with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-584542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}