{"id":424815,"date":"2026-02-14T04:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424815\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T04:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:53:14","slug":"colorado-deputies-track-down-charlie-the-wallaby-seen-running-around-highlands-ranch-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424815\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado deputies track down &#8220;Charlie the Wallaby&#8221; seen running around Highlands Ranch neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies recently received a perplexing call about a kangaroo on the run in a Highlands Ranch neighborhood. According to investigators, the little guy is actually &#8220;Charlie the Wallaby,&#8221; who apparently is very well known and even has his own Instagram account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dougco-wallaby-vo-dcso-frame-1596-copy.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"dougco-wallaby-vo-dcso-frame-1596-copy.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Douglas County<\/p>\n<p>Charlie made his way home and as one Douglas County sergeant put it, &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to lie, this is going to be the highlight of my year\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Douglas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said that its deputies are always ready, &#8220;no matter what hops their way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Douglas County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies recently received a perplexing call about a kangaroo on the run in a Highlands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-424815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424815","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=424815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}