{"id":414306,"date":"2026-07-27T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414306\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:36:08","slug":"man-steals-excavator-takes-on-joyride-in-north-park-police-say-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414306\/","title":{"rendered":"Man steals excavator, takes on joyride in North Park, police say \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested after taking a joyride on an excavator stolen from a construction site in North Park Sunday morning, authorities confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>The excavator was stolen from a construction site near University Avenue and Utah Street, a San Diego police spokesperson said. Video shared with NBC San Diego showed downed traffic-sign poles and a photo from the scene showed police tape surrounding the excavator as it sat outside a damaged North Park Observatory sign. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the San Diego Police Department said the man, who has not been identified, was arrested for theft. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/excavator-stolen.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Video shared with NBC San Diego showed an excavator driving through North Park. San Diego police say it was stolen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNBC 7NBC 7<\/p>\n<p>Video shared with NBC San Diego showed an excavator driving through North Park. San Diego police say it was stolen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested after taking a joyride on an excavator stolen from a construction site in North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[983,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-414306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-north-park","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}