Two men submerged themselves in a swamp to hide from authorities after an alleged attempt to siphon fuel from a Tauranga construction site, police say. <\/p>\n
The two were spotted by a camera operator at a construction site on Takitimu Drive at 11.35pm, “acting suspiciously around vehicles”.<\/p>\n
When police arrived, the pair allegedly bolted on foot, fleeing to a nearby swamp area in an attempt to hide by submerging themselves. <\/p>\n
At the scene, officers found that vehicles had been broken into. They also found equipment used to siphon fuel. <\/p>\n
The two alleged offenders were tracked by a police dog unit and found “some time later”. They were taken into custody and treated for dog bite injuries. <\/p>\n
A 55-year-old man was charged with burglary. He was due to appear in the Tauranga District Court on May 25. <\/p>\n
The other man, a 52-year-old, was charged with two counts of burglary and was due to appear in Tauranga District Court today.<\/p>\n
He was also alleged to have stolen $12,000 worth of copper from a premises in Mount Maunganui last month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men submerged themselves in a swamp to hide from authorities after an alleged attempt to siphon fuel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-438400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438400","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=438400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}