{"id":616062,"date":"2026-09-30T05:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616062\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T05:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:44:10","slug":"canterbury-police-work-with-scrap-metal-industry-to-curb-copper-theft-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616062\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury police work with scrap metal industry to curb copper theft profits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canterbury police said they were \u201cworking with the Scrap Metal Recycling Association to discuss ways to make it harder for offenders to profit from stolen metal\u201d.<\/p>\n

Police asked anyone with information to contact them immediately.<\/p>\n

Police reminded the public it is a crime to receive stolen goods.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a brass dolphin statue was removed from the grave of a Christchurch teenager<\/a> who died after being hit by a truck while cycling to school.<\/p>\n

Melissa Tucker was 13 when she was killed in March 1994 at the intersection of Main South Rd and Curletts Rd.<\/p>\n

More than three decades later, her family found the brass dolphin statue that adorned her grave at Avonhead Cemetery had been taken.<\/p>\n

\"AA brass dolphin statue was been stolen from the grave of a Christchurch teenager who died after being hit by a truck while cycling to school.<\/p>\n

In August, several brass memorial plaques were taken<\/a> from Christchurch city.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Lane Todd, metro commander, said at the time the plaques were taken from the Latimer Square and the Bridge of Remembrance areas overnight on August 11-12.<\/p>\n

Christchurch City Council confirmed it was aware the brass plaques had been taken and was seeking a replacement that would deter future thefts.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a man died after trying to retrieve copper from a power box<\/a> in Christchurch\u2019s red zone.<\/p>\n

The man was found critically injured and died at the scene, police said at the time. <\/p>\n

Power had to be cut to the transformer and about 700 homes before first aid could be provided.<\/p>\n

In January 2025, 23 of the 41 individual bronze plaques for victims of the Ballantynes fire went missing from Bromley\u2019s Ruru Lawn Cemetery.<\/p>\n

One row of the memorial had been stripped, and at least seven plaques from wooden benches throughout the cemetery were targeted \u2013 some were left damaged. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canterbury police said they were \u201cworking with the Scrap Metal Recycling Association to discuss ways to make it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3110,138,8126,4201,3058,71,47963,2454,5812,1614,111,139,69,15222,675,5340,9324,3354,14170,4736,14168,61,102,4576,19135],"class_list":["post-616062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-association","tag-business","tag-canterbury","tag-copper","tag-curb","tag-from","tag-harder","tag-industry","tag-make","tag-metal","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offenders","tag-police","tag-profit","tag-profits","tag-recycling","tag-scrap","tag-stolen","tag-theft","tag-to","tag-with","tag-work","tag-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616062","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=616062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}