{"id":17099,"date":"2022-06-22T12:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17099"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:49:38","slug":"man-charged-after-pursuit-hunter-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/06\/22\/man-charged-after-pursuit-hunter-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after pursuit &#8211; Hunter region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man has been charged following a pursuit with police in the Hunter region this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 1.30pm (Wednesday 22 June 2022), officers from Forster Traffic and Highway Patrol attempted to stop a Porsche Cayman on the Pacific Highway, Coolongolook, inland from Forster, after reports regarding its manner of driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Porsche failed to stop, and a pursuit was initiated, with the vehicle travelling southbound on the highway allegedly at speeds over 200km\/h.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vehicle travelled into the Heatherbrae township and entered a local car park, travelling around the carpark for some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vehicle eventually exited the carpark onto Banks Street, before crashing into a fence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver \u2013 a 20-year-old man \u2013 was not injured. He was arrested by police and was taken to Maitland Hospital for mandatory testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subsequent inquiries revealed the vehicle was reportedly stolen from a South Brisbane address on Sunday (19 June 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man has since been taken to Raymond Terrace Police Station and charged with 11 offences including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Larceny<\/li><li>Destroy or damage property<\/li><li>Receive etc property stolen outside NSW<\/li><li>Police pursuit \u2013 not stop \u2013 drive at speed<\/li><li>Police pursuit \u2013 not stop \u2013 drive dangerously<\/li><li>Drive recklessly\/furiously or speed\/manner dangerous<\/li><li>Negligent driving (3)<\/li><li>Possess prohibited drug<\/li><li>Never licensed person drive vehicle on road<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was refused bail to appear before Raymond Terrace Local Court on Thursday 23 June 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged following a pursuit with police in the Hunter region this afternoon. About 1.30pm (Wednesday 22 June 2022), officers from Forster Traffic and Highway Patrol attempted to stop a Porsche Cayman on the Pacific Highway, Coolongolook, inland from Forster, after reports regarding its manner of driving. The Porsche failed to stop, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/06\/22\/man-charged-after-pursuit-hunter-region\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged after pursuit &#8211; Hunter region&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17099","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\/17099","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=17099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17100,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099\/revisions\/17100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}