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<\/p>\nA Christchurch business owner has been arrested and faces accusations of dismantling stolen vehicles to ship parts overseas.<\/p>\n
Twenty-seven stolen vehicles allegedly went through the 48-year-old man\u2019s business.<\/p>\n
Polie also alleged involvement in organised crime and multiple breaches of the Second Hand Dealers Act.<\/p>\n
Detective Sergeant Michael Hawke said the discovery brought clarity for Canterbury communities, with the arrest making an impact on the dealing of stolen cars.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis arrest puts a significant dent into any dealing where stolen vehicles are knowingly being taken in by businesses and sold to offshore buyers.<\/p>\n
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Dismantled vehicle at an alleged illegal ‘chop shop’ in Canterbury. (Source: NZ Police)<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing able to drive a wedge between those stealing the vehicles, and the people they are offloading them to, is an extremely pleasing result.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2025, it was recorded that $10 million worth of vehicles were stolen in the Canterbury region and never recovered.<\/p>\n
Hawke said “chop shop” arrests helped to bring down those numbers.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother business owner in the vehicle industry was arrested for similar offending. The following year, we saw the total value of all stolen vehicles in the region decrease by around $2 million.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 48-year-old is set to appear in the Christchurch District Court on June 18. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Christchurch business owner has been arrested and faces accusations of dismantling stolen vehicles to ship parts overseas.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-450654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","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\/450654","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=450654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}