{"id":552645,"date":"2026-07-31T07:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552645\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:42:12","slug":"man-allegedly-dumps-car-in-harbour-during-dunedin-crime-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552645\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly dumps car in harbour during Dunedin crime spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested after a series of incidents around Dunedin today, including sinking a car in the harbour off Port Chalmers early this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to social media, police said they were initially called to a submerged car at Peninsula Beach Rd at about 6.30am.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s believed the man dumped the car and jumped out before it went into the ocean,\u201d the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/harbour_car_better-jpg.webp\" width=\"1211\" height=\"727\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/harbour_car_better-jpg.webp\" width=\"1211\" height=\"727\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The man then allegedly stole another car\u00a0from a nearby workplace, but\u00a0it was recovered by police a few hours later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This followed earlier reports of vehicle tampering in Port Chalmers and an attempted break in of a retail store in South Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old man was arrested just before 9am after he was discovered breaking into a house on Beach St, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man is appearing in Dunedin District court facing numerous charges relating to his offending.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was recovered from the water by the Otago Regional Council\u2019s harbourmaster and pollution teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a series of incidents around Dunedin today, including sinking a car in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-552645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/552645","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=552645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}