A man will fact court today charged after two men, aged 72 and 83, were allegedly assaulted during a carjacking in Newcastle.
\nAs a 72-year-old man went to enter his car, parked in Wood Street, Newcastle West, he was approached from behind and allegedly assaulted by a 32-year-old man just after midday yesterday (Thursday 14 February 2019).
\nThe older man fled the area and sought assistance from a nearby business.
\nThe younger man then allegedly entered a vehicle parked directly behind, before assaulting an 83-year-old man sitting in the passenger seat.
\nThe 32-year-old man drove the car to Hunter Street and ordered the older man to leave the vehicle, which he complied with.
\nOfficers from Newcastle City Police District initiated a pursuit, which was terminating shortly after for safety reasons.
\nDetectives, with assistance from the Dog Unit, arrested the 32-year-old man a short time later on Brown Street, Raymond Terrace.
\nHe was charged with stalk\/intimidate intend fear physical harm, assault with intent to take\/drive motor vehicle (x2), and police pursuit \u2013 not stop \u2013 drive recklessly.
\nThe man was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court today (Friday 15 February 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will fact court today charged after two men, aged 72 and 83, were allegedly assaulted during a carjacking in Newcastle. As a 72-year-old man went to enter his car, parked in Wood Street, Newcastle West, he was approached from behind and allegedly assaulted by a 32-year-old man just after midday yesterday (Thursday 14 … Continue reading “Charges laid after two men assaulted during alleged carjacking – Newcastle”<\/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-1543","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\/1543","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=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}