{"id":440371,"date":"2026-02-22T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440371\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:50:11","slug":"haul-of-air-rifles-stolen-from-lorry-in-basildon-industrial-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440371\/","title":{"rendered":"Haul of air rifles stolen from lorry in Basildon industrial park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Insp Marcus Dodd said: &#8220;I&#8217;m urging anyone who was driving in the area in the timeframe to please check their dashcam. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Equally, to the businesses in the area, if there is CCTV on your premises, please check it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said the lorry, a white DAF, was parked between Trafertier International Transport and Amari House when the theft took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The detective added: &#8220;I would also ask that should anyone be offered these items or comes across them for sale, please alert us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Powered air rifles are often used for pest control, small game hunting and competitive target shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Det Insp Marcus Dodd said: &#8220;I&#8217;m urging anyone who was driving in the area in the timeframe to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-440371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440371","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=440371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}