{"id":22647,"date":"2023-09-01T09:41:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=22647"},"modified":"2023-09-01T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:41:33","slug":"man-charged-after-police-officer-assaulted-port-stephens-hunter-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/09\/01\/man-charged-after-police-officer-assaulted-port-stephens-hunter-pd\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after police officer assaulted \u2013 Port Stephens-Hunter PD\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man has been charged after allegedly assaulting a police officer on the Port Stephens-Hunter region this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About&nbsp;8.25am&nbsp;(Friday 1 September 2023), police were called to a property on Morna Point Road, Anna Bay, following a concern for welfare report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On arrival, officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District located a man and woman inside the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon making further inquiries at the scene, a male constable was allegedly stabbed by the man with a narrow metal instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 42-year-old man was arrested and taken to the Mater Hospital for assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31-year-old constable was taken to the John Hunter Hospital for the treatment of non-life-threatening facial injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon his release from hospital, the 42-year-old man was taken to Raymond Terrace Police Station where he was charged with seven offences, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>take etc person intend serious indictable offence,<\/li><li>common assault,<\/li><li>stalk\/intimidate intend fear physical etc harm,<\/li><li>assault occasioning actual bodily harm,<\/li><li>wound police officer executing duty reckless as to actual bodily harm,<\/li><li>use etc offensive weapon to prevent lawful detention, and<\/li><li>possess prohibited drug.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Anna Bay man was refused bail to appear before Newcastle Local Court tomorrow (Saturday 2 September 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after allegedly assaulting a police officer on the Port Stephens-Hunter region this morning. About&nbsp;8.25am&nbsp;(Friday 1 September 2023), police were called to a property on Morna Point Road, Anna Bay, following a concern for welfare report. On arrival, officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District located a man and woman inside &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/09\/01\/man-charged-after-police-officer-assaulted-port-stephens-hunter-pd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged after police officer assaulted \u2013 Port Stephens-Hunter PD\u00a0\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-22647","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\/22647","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=22647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22648,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22647\/revisions\/22648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}