A man has been arrested after an attempted theft of railway copper forced the shutdown of train services in Wellington. <\/p>\n
At around 4am on Friday, July 3, police were called to the rail corridor at Takapu Road Station in Tawa after a report about a person trying to get in. <\/p>\n
When officers arrived, a heavy signalling cable was damaged, but the alleged offender had already left the scene. <\/p>\n
“The severed cable caused signalling faults which required train services to be suspended while emergency repairs were undertaken,” police said. <\/p>\n
Police said the cost of the damage was around $3000. <\/p>\n
A 54-year-old man was arrested following a raid in Porirua yesterday. <\/p>\n
He was due to appear in the Porirua District Court on September 2, charged with endangering transport.<\/p>\n
Andy Lyon, KiwiRail\u2019s general manager for Wellington Metro, said people who interfered with rail equipment put themselves and others at risk of “serious harm”. <\/p>\n
\u201cCopper theft from the rail corridor is extremely serious.\u00a0As well as posing a significant safety risk, this type of offending can cause delays, additional costs, and disruption to the community.” <\/p>\n
K\u0101piti Mana Area Commander Ren\u00e9e Perkins said: \u201cIt\u2019s very disappointing that people are causing damage to public transport services and are willing to put other people\u2019s lives at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after an attempted theft of railway copper forced the shutdown of train services…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":["post-573780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573780","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=573780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}