{"id":405168,"date":"2026-04-30T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405168\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:17:10","slug":"fuel-theft-man-faces-43-charges-after-christchurch-petrol-station-drive-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405168\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel theft: Man faces 43 charges after Christchurch petrol station drive-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 37-year-old man was arrested after police executed a search warrant at a Burnside address yesterday.<\/p>\n

He appeared in the Christchurch District Court, facing 43 charges stemming from 23 separate petrol drive-offs.<\/p>\n

Constable Leauga Fuimaono, from the Christchurch Beat Team, said officers undertook significant investigation work to identify the man.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were pleased to be able [to] hold this person to account for his prolific offending across Christchurch,\u201d Fuimaono said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man made a lot of effort to steal the fuel and cover his tracks by using stolen number plates, but our team was focused on finding him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fuimaono said unfortunately, none of the fuel was able to be recovered.<\/p>\n

This latest arrest follows more than 370 fuel theft-related charges laid by police nationally since March 2<\/a>, including petrol drive-offs and diesel burglaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice will continue to investigate all reports of theft to find those responsible,\u201d Fuimaono said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage people who have had fuel stolen to please report all of these thefts to police.<\/p>\n

\u201cCall 111 if it\u2019s happening now or use the 105 service online or over the phone for non-emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 37-year-old man was arrested after police executed a search warrant at a Burnside address yesterday. He appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37260,208707,74,1873,4487,12474,188517,6119,9881,2678,5158,111,43,139,69,22126,57390,38988,51519,13655,14168,46870,30590,2742,19985],"class_list":["post-405168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-37260","tag-accumulated","tag-after","tag-charges","tag-christchurch","tag-dollars","tag-driveoffs","tag-faces","tag-facing","tag-fuel","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-petrol","tag-prolific","tag-relation","tag-separate","tag-station","tag-theft","tag-thefts","tag-thief","tag-thousands","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405168","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=405168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}