{"id":399249,"date":"2026-01-30T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399249\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:57:07","slug":"seve-ballesteros-man-arrested-as-police-say-statue-of-golf-legend-broken-up-by-thief-for-bronze-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399249\/","title":{"rendered":"Seve Ballesteros: Man arrested as police say statue of golf legend &#8216;broken up by thief for bronze sale&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A life-size statue of five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros, which vanished from his hometown of Pedrena in northern Spain, has been found chopped into pieces as the alleged thief prepared to sell it for its bronze, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Valued at about 30,000 euros (\u00a326,000), the artwork was found in a storage room in Santander, cut in half at the waist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the torso and head were intact, the arms were broken into several pieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said a 22-year-old man with a criminal record for copper theft was arrested on Thursday, adding that more people could be involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ballesteros, who also helped Europe win four Ryder Cups as a player and then captain, died aged 54 in 2011 after being diagnosed with brain cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A life-size statue of five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros, which vanished from his hometown of Pedrena in northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-399249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399249","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=399249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}