Police have commenced an investigation following the armed robbery of a bottle shop in Shortland yesterday.
\nJust after 6pm (Monday 15 October 2018), a 55-year-old woman was working at a bottle shop on Sandgate Road when a motorcycle pulled in.
\nThe rider of the bike entered the store while his pillion passenger stayed with the bike.
\nA customer left the shop and the rider \u2013 still wearing his full-face helmet \u2013 removed a shortened double-barrel shotgun from his backpack and threatened the employee while demanding money from the register.
\nThe employee complied with his demands and handed over a sum of cash.
\nThe man left the store and was seen getting onto the back of the motorbike now being ridden by his accomplice.
\nThe alarm was raised and officers from Newcastle City Police District attended and commenced inquiries.
\nPolice have been told the armed man was wearing a black helmet, black jacket with blue jeans and a black backpack.
\nHis accomplice was wearing a multi coloured Motocross style helmet with blue rimmed goggles with grey track pants and a grey hoodie.
\nInvestigators would also like to speak with the customer who left the store just prior to the robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have commenced an investigation following the armed robbery of a bottle shop in Shortland yesterday. Just after 6pm (Monday 15 October 2018), a 55-year-old woman was working at a bottle shop on Sandgate Road when a motorcycle pulled in. The rider of the bike entered the store while his pillion passenger stayed with the … Continue reading “Police investigate armed robbery – Newcastle City”<\/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-109","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\/109","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=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}