{"id":5305,"date":"2020-03-01T02:14:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T02:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2020-03-01T02:14:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T02:14:35","slug":"stolen-puppy-returned-to-happy-owners-alleged-dog-napper-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/01\/stolen-puppy-returned-to-happy-owners-alleged-dog-napper-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen puppy returned to happy owners; alleged dog-napper charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have reunited a stolen puppy with its owners in Newcastle today.<br \/>\nAbout 2.30pm on Wednesday 26 February 2020, police were called after \u2018Athena\u2019, an 11-week-old American Staffordshire Terrier, was stolen from the balcony of a home on Parry Street, Cooks Hill.<br \/>\nOfficers from Newcastle City Police District commenced inquiries and appealed to the community for assistance.<br \/>\nActing on information from the community, officers from Lake Macquarie Police District stopped a 34-year-old man with the alleged stolen puppy on Court House Lane in Toronto about 11.20am yesterday (Saturday 29 February 2020).<br \/>\nThe man was arrested and taken to Toronto Police Station, where he was charged with steal dog and possess stolen dog.<br \/>\nPolice will allege in court that the man saw the dog when walking past the home and stole it.<br \/>\nHe was granted conditional bail and is due to appear in Toronto Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/5\">on Tuesday 10 March 2020<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe dog was taken to Belmont Police Station, where she was given water and playtime, before being taken back to her very happy owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have reunited a stolen puppy with its owners in Newcastle today. About 2.30pm on Wednesday 26 February 2020, police were called after \u2018Athena\u2019, an 11-week-old American Staffordshire Terrier, was stolen from the balcony of a home on Parry Street, Cooks Hill. Officers from Newcastle City Police District commenced inquiries and appealed to the community &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/01\/stolen-puppy-returned-to-happy-owners-alleged-dog-napper-charged\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stolen puppy returned to happy owners; alleged dog-napper charged&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}