{"id":290286,"date":"2026-02-14T02:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/290286\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:23:15","slug":"highlight-of-my-year-deputies-catch-wallaby-on-the-loose-in-highlands-ranch-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/290286\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Highlight of my year:\u2019 Deputies catch wallaby on the loose in Highlands Ranch neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; Douglas County deputies responded to quite a unique call in January! Deputies said they had to catch a wallaby that was on the run in a Highlands Ranch neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On January 29, the Douglas County Sheriff\u2019s Office (DCSO) said deputies received a call that a kangaroo was on the loose &#8212; but the suspect in question ended up being Charlie the Wallaby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said Charlie is pretty well known throughout the Denver area and has his own Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Charlie was able to make it home, and deputies were invited inside to pet him and feed him treats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m not going to lie, this is going to be the highlight of my year,\u201d one sergeant said. <\/p>\n<p>Deputies said they had to catch a wallaby that was on the run in a Highlands Ranch neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; Douglas County deputies responded to quite a unique call in January! Deputies said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-290286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}