An alleged fuel thief and his partner have been arrested after more than 200L of diesel was siphoned from a business in Waikato yesterday.<\/p>\n
Police said they were called to a business at Horsham Downs around 8pm after a person spotted a “suspicious character and vehicle” on a CCTV feed.<\/p>\n
“While they were on the phone they watched as the person started siphoning more than 200 litres of diesel from a tank at the property,” Inspector Andrew Mortimore said. <\/p>\n
“The person watching all this unfold did everything right \u2013 they called 111 straight off the bat and provided really helpful information. That gave us a head start, and we got units rolling towards the property.”<\/p>\n
Mortimore said by the time the alleged thief had filled the drum and a container on his ute, officers had closed in and others were waiting nearby.<\/p>\n
The man and woman fled the scene with police in pursuit when the ute’s front tyres were spiked as the driver headed north towards Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia.<\/p>\n
The vehicle, on rubberless front wheels, was travelling along Waingaro Rd when the driver lost control and came to a halt in a ditch.<\/p>\n
The driver took off on foot but was tracked down by a police dog.<\/p>\n
He was taken into custody and treated for a minor dog bite.<\/p>\n
The man’s associate remained with the ute, where she was arrested.<\/p>\n
Mortimore called the arrests “a great result”, adding that it wasn’t the first time the property had been targeted.<\/p>\n
“It causes a heap of pain and inconvenience, not to mention expense,” Mortimore said.<\/p>\n
“This really shows the value of having working security systems in place and contacting police immediately when something doesn\u2019t look right.”<\/p>\n
A 32-year-old Chartwell man was due to appear in the Hamilton District Court today charged with burglary, driving while suspended, failing to stop, and dangerous driving. <\/p>\n
A 28-year-old Chartwell woman was due to appear in the Hamilton District Court today charged with burglary.<\/p>\n
Police enquiries were ongoing to determine whether the pair were linked to other district-wide offending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alleged fuel thief and his partner have been arrested after more than 200L of diesel was siphoned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-382227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hamilton-waikato","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\/382227","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=382227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}