{"id":10449,"date":"2021-02-26T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10449"},"modified":"2021-02-26T00:08:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:08:16","slug":"man-charged-after-paramedics-assaulted-and-ambulance-damaged-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/26\/man-charged-after-paramedics-assaulted-and-ambulance-damaged-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after paramedics assaulted and ambulance damaged \u2013 Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after allegedly assaulting paramedics and damaging an ambulance vehicle in the Lake Macquarie area.<br \/>\nAbout 9.00pm on Thursday 25 February 2021, paramedics responded to a home on Edward Street, Cardiff, to assist a man who had reportedly injured his shoulder.<br \/>\nWhile treating the man, he allegedly became aggressive, verbally abused them.<br \/>\nWhen the paramedics went to leave, the man allegedly pushed one of them in the chest.<br \/>\nThe paramedics returned to the ambulance vehicle, the man is alleged to have lashed out as they drove off, damaging a door.<br \/>\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie Police District were alerted and arrested the 25-year-old man a short time later.<br \/>\nHe was taken to Toronto Police Station, where he was charged with common assault and malicious damage.<br \/>\nThe man was granted conditional bail to appear in Toronto Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">on Wednesday 10 March 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after allegedly assaulting paramedics and damaging an ambulance vehicle in the Lake Macquarie area. About 9.00pm on Thursday 25 February 2021, paramedics responded to a home on Edward Street, Cardiff, to assist a man who had reportedly injured his shoulder. While treating the man, he allegedly became aggressive, verbally abused &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/26\/man-charged-after-paramedics-assaulted-and-ambulance-damaged-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged after paramedics assaulted and ambulance damaged \u2013 Lake Macquarie&#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-10449","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\/10449","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=10449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}