A man will face court today charged over a series of alleged armed robberies at Newcastle overnight.
\nAbout 5.50pm yesterday (Wednesday 8 December 2021), a 26-year-old man was seated in his stationary vehicle on Beaumont Street, Hamilton, when another man opened the driver\u2019s side door and demanded he get out.
\nIt will be alleged the man grabbed the driver and pulled him from the car, before a brief struggle ensued and he stabbed the driver in the chest with a scalpel.
\nThe driver was able to grab the keys from the ignition before the man fled the scene on foot, heading south along Beaumont Street.
\nA short time later, the man allegedly entered a chemist on the same street before demanding cash from an employee and stealing drinks.
\nThe man then walked towards the intersection of Tudor and Beaumont Streets, where he opened the passenger side door of a white Ford Kuga \u2013 which was stationary at traffic lights \u2013 and allegedly threatened the driver \u2013 a 33-year-old woman \u2013 with a scalpel.
\nThe woman \u2013 who had two young children in the vehicle \u2013 circled the block before the man attempted to undo one of the child\u2019s restraints.
\nThe woman pulled over and removed the children from the car, before the man stole the vehicle and drove away.
\nOfficers from Newcastle City Police District were notified of all three incidents and commenced extensive searches and inquiries in the nearby area.
\nAbout 7pm, officers attached to Hunter Region Enforcement Squad (RES) observed a white Ford Kuga on Darby Street at Cooks Hill.
\nPolice activated their warning lights and sirens, however the driver failed to stop as directed and a pursuit was initiated.
\nThe pursuit continued through Merewether, before the car was stopped at Flowerdale Avenue.
\nThe driver \u2013 a 39-year-old Queensland man \u2013 was arrested and taken to Newcastle Police Station, where he was charged with two counts of robbery armed with an offensive weapon, aggravated robbery with wounding\/grievous bodily harm, and police pursuit \u2013 not stop \u2013 drive at speed.
\nHe was refused bail and is due to appear at Newcastle Local Court today (Thursday 9 December 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will face court today charged over a series of alleged armed robberies at Newcastle overnight. About 5.50pm yesterday (Wednesday 8 December 2021), a 26-year-old man was seated in his stationary vehicle on Beaumont Street, Hamilton, when another man opened the driver\u2019s side door and demanded he get out. It will be alleged the … Continue reading “Man charged over series of armed robberies – Hamilton”<\/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-14212","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\/14212","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=14212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}