{"id":10429,"date":"2021-02-24T23:03:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10429"},"modified":"2021-02-24T23:03:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:03:04","slug":"armed-robbery-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/armed-robbery-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed robbery \u2013 Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police will address the media after an armed robbery in Newcastle overnight.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/1\">8.30pm<\/a> (Wednesday 24 February 2021), a man, armed with a firearm, entered a takeaway food store on Cowper Street, Wallsend, and threatened four employees before stealing cash, a handbag.<br \/>\nThe armed man fled out the back door and a female employee chased him into nearby Irving Street where he was seen to get in the passenger side of a car and drive off.<br \/>\nOfficers attached to Newcastle City Police District attended and established a crime scene.<br \/>\nThe employees were not physically injured.<br \/>\nAs inquiries continue, police are looking to speak to a man they believe may be able to assist them.<br \/>\nHe is described as being aged between 25 and 30, 180cm to 185cm tall, of medium build and was seen at the time wearing a grey hooded jumper, a face covering and long black pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police will address the media after an armed robbery in Newcastle overnight. About 8.30pm (Wednesday 24 February 2021), a man, armed with a firearm, entered a takeaway food store on Cowper Street, Wallsend, and threatened four employees before stealing cash, a handbag. The armed man fled out the back door and a female employee chased &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/armed-robbery-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Armed robbery \u2013 Newcastle&#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-10429","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\/10429","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=10429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}