Police are investigating the armed robbery of a Newcastle hotel this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 3.20am (Friday 8 July 2022), a 21-year-old male employee was leaving the premises on Denison Street, Hamilton, when he was approached by a man armed with a knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He threatened the employee and demanded to be let inside the premises, before stealing cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man then ran from the scene south on Beaumont Street towards Hamilton South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District attended and established a crime scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man \u2013 who was wearing all black clothing and a face mask \u2013 is described as being of Caucasian appearance, aged in his mid to late-30s, about 170cm tall, and of solid build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As inquiries continue, police are appealing for anyone who may have CCTV footage from nearby streets or dashcam footage from Beaumont and Denison Streets between 3.15am and 3.30am this morning (Friday 8 July 2022), to contact Newcastle Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are investigating the armed robbery of a Newcastle hotel this morning. About 3.20am (Friday 8 July 2022), a 21-year-old male employee was leaving the premises on Denison Street, Hamilton, when he was approached by a man armed with a knife. He threatened the employee and demanded to be let inside the premises, before stealing cash. The … Continue reading “Armed robbery \u2013 Hamilton\u00a0\u00a0“<\/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-17299","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\/17299","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=17299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17300,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17299\/revisions\/17300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}