A man will appear in court today charged following a pursuit and alleged attempted carjacking in the state\u2019s Hunter Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 11.30am yesterday (Monday 22 August 2022), police were called to O\u2019Hearn Street, Tenambit, following reports of a brawl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District attended and located a man allegedly armed with a speargun, who immediately fled a Holden Commodore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police initiated a pursuit, during which the Holden collided with a caged police vehicle. The pursuit was terminated due to safety concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A short time later, police were called to Melbourne Street, East Maitland, after the Holden reportedly lost control and the man allegedly attempted to carjack two vehicles while armed with a weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, the vehicle was located parked at the rear of a unit block on Newcastle Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Offices forced entry to a unit and arrested the 36-year-old man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was taken to Raymond Terrace Police Station and charged with affray, police pursuit – not stop – drive dangerously, and two counts of aggravated assault with intent to take\/drive motor vehicle – armed with weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The East Maitland man was refused bail to appear at Maitland Local Court today (Tuesday 23 August 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will appear in court today charged following a pursuit and alleged attempted carjacking in the state\u2019s Hunter Region. About 11.30am yesterday (Monday 22 August 2022), police were called to O\u2019Hearn Street, Tenambit, following reports of a brawl. Officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District attended and located a man allegedly armed with a … Continue reading “Man charged after pursuit in Maitland\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-17863","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\/17863","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=17863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17864,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17863\/revisions\/17864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}