Hundreds of litres of stolen fuel have been recovered by police who swooped on an Invercargill address and arrested two teenagers.<\/p>\n
A string of rural thefts happened overnight on Tuesday, with significant quantities of fuel among the items taken, Invercargill area prevention manager acting Inspector Mel Robertson,<\/p>\n
\u201cSix vehicles were stolen, along with hundreds of litres diesel and petrol, but police have been able to recover five of the vehicles thanks to GPS tracking.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur enquiries are still ongoing, and we can\u2019t rule out further arrests, but I want to acknowledge the swift response from frontline staff and detectives that led to yesterday\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t tolerate this offending here. It\u2019s senseless stuff and causes significant distress and upheaval to the lives of hard-working people.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone who is thinking of stealing fuel or vehicles should take this as a warning – we will act immediately and use our resources to find and prosecute anyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
The youth was arrested after a search warrant was executed at an Invercargill property.<\/p>\n
He has been charged with burglary relating to the theft of fuel from a tractor and further charges are being considered.<\/p>\n
He is due to appear in the Invercargill Youth Court later this month.<\/p>\n
An 18-year-old at the property was also arrested and charged with receiving stolen goods.<\/p>\n
He is due to appear in the Invercargill District Court on 14 April.<\/p>\n
Nine 20 litre cans containing different fuels have been recovered and enquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n
– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of litres of stolen fuel have been recovered by police who swooped on an Invercargill address and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-372104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372104","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=372104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}