A farm buggy, water tanks, generators, pumps and power tools have been seized after an arrest by Rural Crime Investigators in the state\u2019s Hunter yesterday.
\nThe Rural Crime Prevention team attached to Hunter Valley Police District have been investigating break and enter offences targeting rural properties in Merriwa and surrounding areas over the past month.
\nWhen a search warrant was executed at a property on Roma Road, Merriwa, items \u2013 alleged to be stolen \u2013 were seized including a farm buggy, water tanks, generators, pumps, kitchenware, corrugated iron and power tools.
\nThe items recovered are estimated to be worth approximately $80,000.
\nAbout 2.30pm yesterday (Wednesday 2 January 2019), a 57-year-old man was arrested when he attended Muswellbrook Police Station.
\nHe has been charged with 10 offences including break enter and steal (x2), enter building\/land with intent commit indictable offence, larceny (x3), enter enclosed lands not prescribed premises without lawful excuse (x2), destroy or damage property (x2).
\nThe man was refused bail to appear in Wyong Local Court today (Thursday 3 January 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A farm buggy, water tanks, generators, pumps and power tools have been seized after an arrest by Rural Crime Investigators in the state\u2019s Hunter yesterday. The Rural Crime Prevention team attached to Hunter Valley Police District have been investigating break and enter offences targeting rural properties in Merriwa and surrounding areas over the past month. … Continue reading “Pumps, power tools, buggy seized as man charged over Hunter break-ins”<\/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-1157","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\/1157","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=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}