{"id":167326,"date":"2025-12-04T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167326\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:00:08","slug":"man-arrested-for-more-than-500-tags-across-canterbury-and-dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167326\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for more than 500 tags across Canterbury and Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A North Canterbury man has been arrested for over 500 tags across Canterbury, Kaikoura and Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said the 23-year-old would appear in the Christchurch District Court on December 5 on charges of entering agricultural land with intent and wilful damage for graffiti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Senior Sergeant Stephen McDaniel said the offender not only sprayed his tag everywhere, he also took videos of his offending and posted them to social media, &#8220;benefiting from the notoriety&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The tag was located on public bridges, toilets, walls, rubbish bins, walkways, light posts, former gun emplacements, train tracks, water tanks and drainage pipes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">McDaniel said, in some instances, the offender has spray painted in the same spot after councils had cleaned up their prior graffiti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Graffiti or tagging is considered as intentionally damaging property, and we\u2019ll hold offenders to account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said anyone observing illegal graffiti happening should let police know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A North Canterbury man has been arrested for over 500 tags across Canterbury, Kaikoura and Dunedin. Police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,67,1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-167326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167326","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=167326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}