{"id":438073,"date":"2026-05-21T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/438073\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:43:09","slug":"tauranga-fuel-thefts-two-men-in-custody-after-alleged-siphoning-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/438073\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga fuel thefts: Two men in custody after alleged siphoning incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">He said a police dog tracked them down \u201csome time later\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe two men were taken into custody and were treated for dog bite injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">A 55-year-old man is due to appear in Tauranga District Court on Monday, charged with burglary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">The other man, aged 52, was also alleged to have stolen about $12,000 worth of copper from a Mount Maunganui premises last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">He had been charged with two counts of burglary and was due to appear in the same court today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Paxton said fuel offending caused serious harm to communities and he encouraged people to report suspicious activity quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">People should contact police immediately on 111 if it is happening now, or through 105 in non-emergencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Alternatively, information can be provided through Crime Stoppers at 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said a police dog tracked them down \u201csome time later\u201d. \u201cThe two men were taken into custody&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1554,11928,2678,78,671,3605,111,43,139,69,22428,1227,46870,1237],"class_list":["post-438073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-custody","tag-fuel","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-men","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-siphoning","tag-tauranga","tag-thefts","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438073","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=438073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}