{"id":167089,"date":"2025-12-04T03:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167089\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:22:09","slug":"north-canterbury-man-charged-after-500-south-island-graffiti-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167089\/","title":{"rendered":"North Canterbury man charged after 500 South Island graffiti tags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNot only was the offender spray painting his \u2018tag\u2019 everywhere, he was also taking videos of his offending and posting them to social media and benefitting from the notoriety,\u201d McDaniel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe offending leaves a lasting piece of graffiti on the public structures, and in some instances the offender has spray-painted the same spot after councils have cleaned up their prior graffiti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cGraffiti or tagging is considered as intentionally damaging property, and we\u2019ll hold offenders to account,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The 23-year-old man is to appear in the Christchurch District Court tomorrow on charges of entering agricultural land with intent and wilful damage for graffiti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Any illegal graffiti being painted can be reported to police using 111 in an emergency, or 105 if it\u2019s after the fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNot only was the offender spray painting his \u2018tag\u2019 everywhere, he was also taking videos of his offending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7615,74,7818,8126,13239,19473,3073,108936,8241,2514,5158,1073,111,43,139,529,69,13660,1072,1240,108935,25824,14005,6382,8538,6123],"class_list":["post-167089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-7615","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-canterbury","tag-charged","tag-footage","tag-graffiti","tag-graffitiing","tag-himself","tag-island","tag-man","tag-media","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-sharing","tag-social","tag-south","tag-tags","tag-throughout","tag-times","tag-took","tag-videos","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}