{"id":14544,"date":"2022-01-20T00:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14544"},"modified":"2022-01-20T00:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:07:04","slug":"man-wounded-during-armed-robbery-morpeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/man-wounded-during-armed-robbery-morpeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wounded during armed robbery \u2013 Morpeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating an armed robbery where a man was wounded in the Hunter early this morning.<br \/>\nAbout <span dir=\"ltr\">5.15am<\/span> (Thursday 20 January 2022), three men entered a grocery store on Swan Street, Morpeth, and approached the tills.<br \/>\nThe group began removing cash from the drawers before the employee, a 47-year-old man, approached the trio and challenged them.<br \/>\nOne of the men struck the employee with an unknown object. All three fled the scene a short time later in a white sedan.<br \/>\nThe injured man suffered a wound to his abdomen and was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to John Hunter Hospital for treatment.<br \/>\nOfficers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District attended and established a crime scene.<br \/>\nAs inquiries continue, detectives are urging anyone who may have dashcam footage from the Morpeth area <span dir=\"ltr\">between 4.50am and 5.30am<\/span>to contact Raymond Terrace Police or Crime Stoppers on <span dir=\"ltr\">1800 333 000<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating an armed robbery where a man was wounded in the Hunter early this morning. About 5.15am (Thursday 20 January 2022), three men entered a grocery store on Swan Street, Morpeth, and approached the tills. The group began removing cash from the drawers before the employee, a 47-year-old man, approached the trio and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/man-wounded-during-armed-robbery-morpeth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man wounded during armed robbery \u2013 Morpeth&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544","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=14544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}