{"id":221241,"date":"2026-01-07T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/221241\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:21:07","slug":"hero-driver-praised-for-aiding-in-return-of-missing-dogs-after-vehicle-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/221241\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hero driver\u2019 praised for aiding in return of missing dogs after vehicle theft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sergeant Cath Hone said the man continued to Fairlie but stopped outside a vet clinic where he called police.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe male got out, but our hero driver kept the dogs \u2013 Jock and Nala,\u201c she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cConstable Brad Morton immediately dispatched from Lake Tekapo, along with a Timaru unit, and the male was located and arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hone said police wanted to thank the man for his actions and keeping the dogs safe.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe also want to thank Aorangi Veterinary Services in Fairlie for promptly jumping into action when they got a call from police to assist with the dogs \u2013 allowing officers to focus on locating the male.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 35-year-old man has been remanded in custody and will reappear in Timaru District Court on January 13.<\/p>\n

He is facing charges related to driving, burglary and theft of stock.<\/p>\n

The owners of Jock and Nala said they were \u201cbeyond thrilled\u201d to have their dogs back.<\/p>\n

\u2013 RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergeant Cath Hone said the man continued to Fairlie but stopped outside a vet clinic where he called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,132929,9213,19552,2082,12811,78,6501,111,43,139,69,1118,13033,1527,14168,6845],"class_list":["post-221241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aiding","tag-dogs","tag-driver","tag-for","tag-hero","tag-in","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-praised","tag-return","tag-theft","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221241","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=221241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}