{"id":21455,"date":"2023-06-20T02:16:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=21455"},"modified":"2023-06-20T02:16:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:16:36","slug":"investigation-underway-into-armed-robbery-mayfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/investigation-underway-into-armed-robbery-mayfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway into armed robbery \u2013 Mayfield\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police are appealing for public information following an armed robbery in the state\u2019s Hunter region last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 4.45pm on Thursday 18 May 2023, a man entered a retail business on Maitland Road, Mayfield, and threatened a female employee with a firearm and a machete, before he fled with cash and jewellery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The female employee was not physically injured and notified police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District established a crime scene, which has been examined by specialist forensic police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As inquiries continue, police have released images of a man who may be able to assist with the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man depicted is described as being 180cm tall, and of solid build. He is shown wearing blue overalls, a fluoro yellow vest, black full face road bike helmet, and black\/yellow gloves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public information following an armed robbery in the state\u2019s Hunter region last month. About 4.45pm on Thursday 18 May 2023, a man entered a retail business on Maitland Road, Mayfield, and threatened a female employee with a firearm and a machete, before he fled with cash and jewellery. The female employee &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/investigation-underway-into-armed-robbery-mayfield\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Investigation underway into armed robbery \u2013 Mayfield\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-21455","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\/21455","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=21455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21456,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions\/21456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}