{"id":342882,"date":"2025-12-30T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342882\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:42:07","slug":"psni-police-officer-appears-in-court-accused-of-stealing-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342882\/","title":{"rendered":"PSNI: Police officer appears in court accused of stealing ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A police officer has appeared in court charged in connection with the alleged theft of thousands of bullets from a police training facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ammunition was allegedly taken from Steeple in Antrim where officers are trained in the use of firearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday Robert Charles Rodgers, whose address was given as c\/o PSNI Brooklyn, Knock Road in Belfast, confirmed he understood the eight charges against him at Antrim Magistrates&#8217; Court sitting in Ballymena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 63-year-old is accused of stealing ammunition belonging to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), having ammunition without a firearms licence and possessing firearms and ammunition in suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer has appeared in court charged in connection with the alleged theft of thousands of bullets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-342882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}