A 26-year-old man is facing multiple charges, including five counts of theft over $2000.<\/p>\n
He is due to appear in the Christchurch District Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Police are continuing to investigate other thefts around Christchurch and are not ruling out further arrests.<\/p>\n
Inspector Peter Cooper said the offending had caused significant impact on both businesses and members of the public.<\/p>\n
“The offending has caused significant disruption to EV users and substantial costs to charging network providers through damage and replacement of infrastructure.<\/p>\n
“Police have been working closely with victims and industry partners to identify and locate those responsible to hold them to account.<\/p>\n
“While an arrest has been made, our enquiries are ongoing and we are not ruling out further arrests.”<\/p>\n
Police were appealing to anyone who had information about suspicious activity around EV charging stations or may have information relating to stolen items to get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old man is facing multiple charges, including five counts of theft over $2000. He is due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-628429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628429","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=628429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}