{"id":945276,"date":"2026-10-29T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945276\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:06:12","slug":"sladevale-man-allegedly-steals-more-than-4000-worth-of-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945276\/","title":{"rendered":"Sladevale: Man allegedly steals more than $4000 worth of fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are searching for a man who allegedly stole more than 1400 litres of fuel, worth more than $4000, from a Queensland service station.<\/p>\n

CCTV shows a truck driver filling up a white Western Star prime mover at a service station on the Cunningham Highway at Sladevale, about 130 kilometres west of the Gold Coast near Warwick, on October 10.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

CCTV shows a truck driver filling up a white Western Star prime mover.\u00a0Queensland Police<\/p>\n

Police allege the man left about 3pm without paying for the 1462\u00a0litres and travelled in an unknown direction without registration plates.<\/p>\n

The man is described as Caucasian, with a medium build and dark hair.<\/p>\n

He was wearing dark-coloured pants, brown boots and a fluorescent yellow and black long-sleeved top.<\/p>\n

Police are appealing for anyone who recognises the man to contact them.<\/p>\n

\"Fuel<\/p>\n

Petrol prices have skyrocketed in the aftermath of the Iran war in March\u00a09News<\/p>\n

Fuel theft is on the rise across Australia<\/a> as motorists reach breaking point over the spiralling costs at the bowser.<\/p>\n

Following the start of the Iran war in March, the price of petrol and diesel skyrocketed as supplies dwindled with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

After dipping slightly, current fuel costs are significantly higher than the pre-war prices in February, when unleaded and diesel prices sat under $1.81 a litre and $1.95 a litre, respectively.<\/p>\n

On average across the capital cities, petrol is currently sitting at $2.33\/litre, while diesel ranges between $2.63 per litre to $2.80 a litre, according to Fuel Radar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is down from about $2.53 a litre on unleaded petrol in March and highs of $3.20 a litre for diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a man who allegedly stole more than 1400 litres of fuel, worth more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-945276","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\/945276","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=945276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}