{"id":21417,"date":"2023-06-15T13:49:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T13:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=21417"},"modified":"2023-06-15T13:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T13:49:37","slug":"man-charged-following-carjacking-charlestown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/man-charged-following-carjacking-charlestown\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged following carjacking \u2013 Charlestown\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man has been charged with multiple driving and firearm offences following a carjacking incident on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 4pm Monday (12 June 2023), police were called to a shopping centre carpark in Charlestown, following reports a man had allegedly threatened three people with a firearm before stealing their vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District arrived and conducted a search of the area, however, were unable to locate the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following extensive inquires police arrested a 32-year-old man in North Lambton, yesterday (14 June 2023). During the arrest the man allegedly aimed a firearm at police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tactical Operations Unit police assisted in the arrest. The man was conveyed to hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police also executed a search warrant on a home in North Lambton. During the search police found clothing and items believed to be illicit substances which have been sent of for further forensic examination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 32-year-old man was then taken to Waratah Police Station where he was charged with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Acquire prohibited firearm subject prohibition order<\/li><li>Acquire unregistered firearm prohibited firearm<\/li><li>Possess loaded firearm public place<\/li><li>Not keep firearm safely prohibited firearm<\/li><li>Armed with intention to commit indictable offence<\/li><li>Police pursuit not stop drive recklessly<\/li><li>Threaten injury to person with intention to prevent lawful detention<\/li><li>Possess unregistered unauthorised pistol in public place<\/li><li>Not keep firearm safely pistol<\/li><li>Robbery while armed with dangerous weapon<\/li><li>Acquire pistol subject to firearms prohibition order<\/li><li>Possess ammunition without holding license\/permit\/authority<\/li><li>Acquire ammunition subject to prohibition order<\/li><li>Goods in personal custody suspected being stolen<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Police will allege in court the man also threatened another man in Edgeworth with a firearm before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man was refused bail to appear before Newcastle Local Court today (Thursday 15 June 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with multiple driving and firearm offences following a carjacking incident on Monday. About 4pm Monday (12 June 2023), police were called to a shopping centre carpark in Charlestown, following reports a man had allegedly threatened three people with a firearm before stealing their vehicle. Officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/man-charged-following-carjacking-charlestown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged following carjacking \u2013 Charlestown\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-21417","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\/21417","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=21417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21418,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21417\/revisions\/21418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}