{"id":109157,"date":"2025-08-01T02:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109157\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T02:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:51:11","slug":"man-allegedly-caught-red-handed-stealing-copper-cabling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109157\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly caught red-handed stealing copper cabling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeff man has allegedly been caught red-handed stealing copper cabling from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/victoria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> street, Victoria Police have said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers first arrived at Springvale Road in Mulgrave at 3am\ufeff today after reports of a suspicious vehicle parked in the street.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police \ufeffthat a man was walking from a cabling pit to the car and back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0085e043-309f-4e8b-8934-17f80a4b35f8.jpeg\"   alt=\"copper cabling stock image \"\/>Police found a grinder and multiple cut copper cables once they pulled the man out of the pit.  (Getty Images\/iStockphoto)<\/p>\n<p>Officers then found a 34-year-old man hidden in the pit, with gum tree branches covering the opening in an attempt to conceal himself.<\/p>\n<p>They also found a grinder and multiple cut copper cables once they pulled the man out of the pit.<\/p>\n<p>Attending officers also searched the man&#8217;s car, allegedly discovering \ufeffa gun and registration plates that didn&#8217;t match the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old was \ufeffarrested and will be interviewed by police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/Z8tJCf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sign up here<\/strong><\/a> <strong>to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeff man has allegedly been caught red-handed stealing copper cabling from a Melbourne street, Victoria Police have said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-109157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114951244072927038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}