{"id":11314,"date":"2021-05-08T04:26:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11314"},"modified":"2021-05-08T04:26:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T04:26:49","slug":"three-men-arrested-over-alleged-shooting-break-in-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/05\/08\/three-men-arrested-over-alleged-shooting-break-in-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men arrested over alleged shooting, break-in \u2013 Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two men have been charged and another arrested over their alleged role in a public place shooting and break-in at Lake Macquarie last night.
\nOfficers were called to a house on Alhambra Street, Macquarie Hills, after reports of shots fired just before 6.50pm<\/span> (Friday 7 May 2021).
\nA 49-year-old man inside the home suffered a graze to his wrist but didn\u2019t need treatment. A woman was also inside but wasn\u2019t injured.
\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie Police District established a crime scene and commenced an investigation.
\nPolice were told an Audi hatchback was seen leaving the scene.
\nA short time later, about 7.25pm<\/span>, police received reports of an attempted break-in at a club at Redhead involving an Audi hatchback; with three men allegedly seen leaving the scene in the car.
\nOne of the men, aged 21, allegedly suffered a serious leg injury while allegedly forcing entry into the premises and was taken soon after to John Hunter Hospital, where he was arrested and remains under police guard in a stable condition.
\nAbout 9:50pm<\/span>, police located the Audi hatchback driving on South Street, Windale, with assistance from PolAir.
\nThe driver allegedly did not stop, and a pursuit was initiated.
\nPolice will allege the driver drove at high speed from Windale to Merewether, before crashing into a gutter at Dixon Park.
\nThe driver and passenger got out of the vehicle and ran from police.
\nThe driver, an 18-year-old man, jumped into the ocean and swam away from police, returning to shore a short time later and was arrested.
\nDuring a search, police allegedly located ammunition and a firearm in a door compartment of the Audi.
\nPolice located the passenger, a 19-year-old man, with assistance from the Dog Unit, at a home on John Street, Mereweather. The man was arrested, and police allegedly located ammunition on him. Officers also allegedly located a second firearm in the backyard of the property.
\nThe firearms, ammunition, and car were seized for forensic examination. Police will allege the car was stolen from a carpark in Ourimbah about 1.50am on 1 May 2021.
\nThe men were taken to Newcastle Police Station.
\nThe 18-year-old was charged with fire firearm at dwelling-house with disregard for safety, two counts of possess unregistered firearm in public place, possess ammunition without holding licence, possess loaded firearm public place, fire firearm in or near public place, aggravated enter dwelling with intent -in company-not steal, police pursuit – not stop – drive recklessly, drive conveyance taken without consent of owner, and possess prohibited drug.
\nThe 19-year-old was charged with fire firearm at dwelling-house with disregard for safety, two counts of possess unregistered firearm in public place, possess ammunition without holding licence\/permit\/authority, aggravated enter dwelling with intent in company – not steal, be carried in conveyance taken without consent of owner.
\nThey were both refused bail and are due to appear in Newcastle Local Court today (Saturday 8 May 2021).
\nInquiries continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two men have been charged and another arrested over their alleged role in a public place shooting and break-in at Lake Macquarie last night. Officers were called to a house on Alhambra Street, Macquarie Hills, after reports of shots fired just before 6.50pm (Friday 7 May 2021). A 49-year-old man inside the home suffered a … Continue reading “Three men arrested over alleged shooting, break-in \u2013 Lake Macquarie”<\/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-11314","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\/11314","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=11314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}