{"id":552643,"date":"2026-07-31T07:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552643\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:41:10","slug":"port-chalmers-car-sunk-in-sea-man-arrested-after-alleged-break-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552643\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Chalmers car sunk in sea, man arrested after alleged break-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">The man was arrested about 9am after he was found allegedly breaking into a Beach St property.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A car was sunk off Port Chalmers Wharf. Photo \/ Otago Regional Council\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A car was sunk off Port Chalmers Wharf. Photo \/ Otago Regional Council<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Otago Regional Council released images of the submerged car on social media and thanked people for reporting it to the pollution hotline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA great example of inter-agency collaboration today saw our Deputy ORC Harbourmaster working with Southern District Police and ORC\u2019s Pollution team to pull a car from the drink at Back Beach, Port Chalmers,\u201d the social media post read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">The post by the regional council also suggested fuel was leaking from the car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">A 28-year-old man will be appearing in Dunedin District Court facing numerous charges related to his offending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man was arrested about 9am after he was found allegedly breaking into a Beach St property. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1554,7818,11924,1558,682,42579,3944,6799,85921,78,10116,12254,5158,2510,111,43,139,69,9629,29268,3008,129552,4736,271420,1361,13639],"class_list":["post-552643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-allegedly","tag-arrested","tag-been","tag-being","tag-breakins","tag-car","tag-cars","tag-chalmers","tag-in","tag-incidents","tag-include","tag-man","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-otago","tag-port","tag-sea","tag-slew","tag-stolen","tag-sunk","tag-that","tag-wharf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552643","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=552643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}