A man is facing several charges after a car was ditched off a Port Chalmers wharf amid a string of burglaries and vehicle thefts across Dunedin this morning.<\/p>\n
Police said they were called to Peninsula Beach Rd about 6.30am after a car was found submerged off the wharf at Back Beach.<\/p>\n
The man is believed to have abandoned the vehicle before it went into the water.<\/p>\n
He then allegedly stole another car from a nearby workplace, which police recovered a few hours later.<\/p>\n
The incidents followed earlier reports of vehicle tampering in Port Chalmers and an attempted break-in at a retail store in South Dunedin.<\/p>\n
Police arrested the man just before 9am after he was discovered breaking into a house on Beach St.<\/p>\n
He is charged with theft from a car, unlawful interference with a motor vehicle, attempted unlawful taking, unlawfully taking a motor vehicle and three counts of burglary by day. <\/p>\n
He is due to appear in the Dunedin District Court tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The Otago Regional Council’s deputy harbourmaster worked alongside police and the council’s pollution team to retrieve the car from the water at Back Beach.<\/p>\n
The ORC harbourmaster described the operation as “a great example of inter-agency collaboration” in a social media post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing several charges after a car was ditched off a Port Chalmers wharf amid a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-552954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-dunedin-otago","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\/552954","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=552954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}