{"id":939253,"date":"2026-10-24T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939253\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:40:11","slug":"canberra-news-two-men-and-teen-charged-after-four-sheep-killed-in-rural-break-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939253\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra news: Two men and teen charged after four sheep killed in rural break-in"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man and two teenagers were allegedly involved in a sickening burglary and animal<\/a> cruelty attack at a rural Canberra<\/a> property that left four sheep dead.<\/p>\n

Police<\/a> launched the investigation after two sheep died during a burglary<\/a> at a rural Tuggeranong property on September 17.<\/p>\n

\"Sheep<\/p>\n

FILE PHOTO – It is believed that the men rounded the sheep up into pen before abusing several.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

It is believed multiple people broke in to the property near the Monaro Highway in Tuggeranong on Wednesday, and using dogs, rounded up eight sheep into a holding pen.<\/p>\n

In the pen, multiple sheep were deliberately injured, which resulted in one of them dying at the time, while another three had to be euthanised after being seriously injured.<\/p>\n

Another two sheep sustained serious injuries in the alleged attack.<\/p>\n

The owner of the property arrived home on Thursday morning to find the injured sheep in the holding pen.<\/p>\n

The home on the property was also broken into and ransacked.<\/p>\n

Following a search warrant at a Richardson home on October 8, an 18-year-old man was arrested and charged over the incident.<\/p>\n

Police have since charged a 27-year-old man with aggravated burglary, four counts of aggravated cruelty to animals causing death, and two counts of aggravated cruelty to animals causing serious injury.<\/p>\n

An arrest warrant has also been issued for another teenager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and two teenagers were allegedly involved in a sickening burglary and animal cruelty attack at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-939253","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\/939253","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=939253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}