{"id":17339,"date":"2022-07-12T03:40:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17339"},"modified":"2022-07-12T03:40:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T03:40:06","slug":"man-charged-over-break-and-enter-drug-and-traffic-offences-hunter-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/man-charged-over-break-and-enter-drug-and-traffic-offences-hunter-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over break and enter, drug and traffic offences \u2013 Hunter Region\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man will face court today after being charged with break and enter, drug and traffic offences in the state\u2019s Hunter Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 11am yesterday (Monday 11 July 2022), officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District stopped a Ford Territory travelling along the New England Highway, Rutherford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police spoke to the driver \u2013 a 42-year-old man \u2013 and, following inquiries relating to a break and enter offence, he was arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers searched the man and allegedly located methylamphetamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man \u2013 who is disqualified from driving \u2013 was taken to Maitland Police Station and charged with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>aggravated break and enter dwelling etc in company steal &lt;$60000,<\/li><li>drive motor vehicle during disqualification period,<\/li><li>use class A vehicle displaying altered number-plate,<\/li><li>drive motor vehicle during disqualification period \u2013 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;offence, and<\/li><li>possess prohibited drug.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will be alleged in court that the man and two other males broke into a four-wheel drive equipment store on Mustang Drive, Rutherford, about 4.10am last Saturday (9 July 2022) where several items were stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will be further alleged that the men drove to the store in a Ford Territory with stolen number plates registered to another vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rutherford man has been bail refused to appear at Maitland Local Court today (Tuesday 12 July 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigations into the incident are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court today after being charged with break and enter, drug and traffic offences in the state\u2019s Hunter Region. About 11am yesterday (Monday 11 July 2022), officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District stopped a Ford Territory travelling along the New England Highway, Rutherford. Police spoke to the driver \u2013 a 42-year-old man &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/man-charged-over-break-and-enter-drug-and-traffic-offences-hunter-region\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged over break and enter, drug and traffic offences \u2013 Hunter Region\u00a0&#8220;<\/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-17339","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\/17339","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=17339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17340,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339\/revisions\/17340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}