{"id":700378,"date":"2026-05-28T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:40:11","slug":"man-to-face-court-over-alleged-fuel-drive-offs-using-trucks-in-adelaides-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700378\/","title":{"rendered":"Man to face court over alleged fuel drive-offs using trucks in Adelaide&#8217;s north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man has been charged for allegedly using trucks in serial fuel drive-offs north of Adelaide, with police estimating the cost to be more than $8,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police were called to an Angle Vale service station, in Adelaide&#8217;s northern suburbs, at about 10:30am on Thursday after reports of a person who allegedly tried to leave without paying for fuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Patrols spoke with a man on the scene, and they said further investigations allegedly linked him to a series of fuel drive-offs between October last year and this month in Virginia, Lower Light and Angle Vale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police will allege that the 51-year-old driver used a Kenworth prime mover, an Isuzu truck and a Holden sedan, displaying unassigned number plates, to steal fuel on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was arrested and charged with multiple counts of making off without payment and various traffic offences.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A large prime move parked in a shed\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3871b79f4a84e5cb5dd07a9c2a17be35.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police have examined the vehicles allegedly used by the man to steal fuel. (Supplied: SA Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers executing a search warrant at his Lewiston home allegedly found the vehicles involved in the drive-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was refused police bail and was expected to appear in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged for allegedly using trucks in serial fuel drive-offs north of Adelaide, with police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,341034,35431,276928,341037,341036,44,5520,176059,1158,10174,5326,341035,25976],"class_list":["post-700378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-drive-off","tag-fuel","tag-fuel-theft","tag-make-offs","tag-making-off-without-payment","tag-news","tag-petrol","tag-petrol-station","tag-police","tag-sa-police","tag-sapol","tag-servo","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700378","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=700378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}