{"id":251917,"date":"2026-01-26T03:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251917\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T03:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:23:09","slug":"man-broke-into-wastewater-treatment-plant-to-hide-from-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251917\/","title":{"rendered":"Man broke into wastewater treatment plant to ‘hide’ from people"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dunedin man told police the only reason he broke into a wastewater treatment plant was to “hide” from people searching from him.<\/p>\n

At 11.30am on Sunday, officers were called to the Tahuna Wastewater Treatment Plant in Lawyers Head after a 43-year-old man broke into the complex, Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen said.<\/p>\n

The man smashed an exterior window in his bid to get in, and damaged the inside of the room while there.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, they located him still inside the building.<\/p>\n

He was arrested, for burglary, and when asked why he was there, he told police people were looking for him, so he had to “hide”.<\/p>\n

He was remanded into custody, charged with willful damage and burglary, and would appear in Dunedin District Court today.<\/p>\n

laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dunedin man told police the only reason he broke into a wastewater treatment plant was to “hide”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-251917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251917","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=251917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}