Two men will face court today after an alleged aggravated break and enter at a Newcastle home yesterday.
\nShortly before 2.10pm (Tuesday 9 February 2021), two men attended a home on Lake Road, Elermore Vale, and allegedly attempted to force entry to the home.
\nA woman opened the door and the pair allegedly threatened her and a 17-year-old man with baseball bats.
\nThe two men left the home, smashing several windows around the property and continuing to hit and smash several vehicles along Lake Road.
\nAn unmarked police car attached to Newcastle City Police District was conducting patrols nearby when they located and arrested the two men \u2013 aged 18 and 16 \u2013 and took them to Waratah Police Station.
\nThe older man was charged with aggravated break and enter commit serious indictable offence in company-not steal, and two counts of destroy\/damage property. He was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court today (Wednesday 10 February 2021).
\nThe teenage boy was charged with aggravated break and enter commit serious indictable offence in company-not steal and destroy\/damage property more than $15,000. He was refused bail to appear at a children\u2019s court today (Wednesday 10 February 2021).
\nAs inquiries are continuing, police are urging anyone whose vehicle may have been damaged to please contact Newcastle Police. Police are also urging anyone who may have dashcam footage or CCTV from the nearby area to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two men will face court today after an alleged aggravated break and enter at a Newcastle home yesterday. Shortly before 2.10pm (Tuesday 9 February 2021), two men attended a home on Lake Road, Elermore Vale, and allegedly attempted to force entry to the home. A woman opened the door and the pair allegedly threatened her … Continue reading “Two charged after alleged break and enter and smashing vehicles – Elermore Vale”<\/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-10208","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\/10208","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=10208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}