{"id":372276,"date":"2026-04-10T02:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372276\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:36:13","slug":"police-investigate-3000-litre-diesel-theft-from-marton-fuel-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372276\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate 3000-litre diesel theft from Marton fuel tank"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBoth people involved have attempted to hide their identity, but we\u2019re continuing to make inquiries to hold these offenders to account. We will not accept this offending in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandbrook said a scene of crime officer had processed the site.<\/p>\n

The incident follows an increase in fuel thefts as prices soar due to the Middle East conflict.<\/a><\/p>\n

Police have fuel shortage and crime prevention advice online at www.police.govt.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOffending like this hurts hard-working people in our community, and our message to people is if you see anything suspicious, please report it to us immediately,\u201d Sandbrook said.<\/p>\n

Police asked anyone who witnessed a white truck towing a small fuel trailer in the Marton area around the time of the offending, or any other suspicious activity, to get in contact.<\/p>\n

Police urge anyone with information to make a report online or by calling 105, quoting reference number 260407\/4600.<\/p>\n

Information can also be reported anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n

Fin Ocheduszko Brown is a multimedia journalist based in Whanganui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBoth people involved have attempted to hide their identity, but we\u2019re continuing to make inquiries to hold these…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[169841,194496,1443,138,54239,2245,71,2678,676,65989,194497,1304,111,43,139,69,675,2885,14931,14168],"class_list":{"0":"post-372276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-169841","9":"tag-3000litre","10":"tag-about","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-diesel","13":"tag-early","14":"tag-from","15":"tag-fuel","16":"tag-investigate","17":"tag-litres","18":"tag-marton","19":"tag-morning","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-police","25":"tag-rangitkei","26":"tag-tank","27":"tag-theft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372276","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=372276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}