{"id":534565,"date":"2026-07-20T04:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534565\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:07:08","slug":"police-dog-nabs-man-after-alleged-200k-copper-theft-in-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534565\/","title":{"rendered":"Police dog nabs man after alleged $200k copper theft in Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man&#8217;s alleged theft of $200k of copper cabling ended in a foot chase after he rammed a vehicle blocking his escape and was later caught by a police dog unit in Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a commercial property in Lincoln at around 8.30pm on Sunday, recovering the copper and arresting a 53-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Peter Cooper said the alleged thief rammed a vehicle blocking his exit before abandoning his truck and the stolen material on Lincoln-Rolleston Rd and fleeing on foot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The alleged offender&#8217;s scrap for freedom was short-lived, being foiled by the dog unit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man has been charged with several offences, including burglary, dangerous driving and intentional damage. <\/p>\n<p>He was due to appear in the Christchurch District Court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man&#8217;s alleged theft of $200k of copper cabling ended in a foot chase after he rammed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-534565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534565","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=534565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}