{"id":23404,"date":"2023-10-13T13:05:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=23404"},"modified":"2023-10-13T13:05:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:05:43","slug":"man-charged-after-swansea-stand-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/man-charged-after-swansea-stand-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after Swansea stand-off\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man has been charged following a 45-hour police operation in the Lake Macquarie region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers from the Hunter Region Enforcement Squad attended a home on Lake Road, Swansea, about 3pm Wednesday (11 October 2023), and attempted to speak with a 33-year-old man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police will allege in court the man instead entered the house and refused to leave.<br><br>A perimeter was established and specialist police, including negotiators, were called to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attempts to negotiate with the man continued until about 12.10pm today (Friday 13 October 2023), when the man was taken into custody by officers from the Tactical Operations Unit (TOU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police seized eight firearms from the home including a sawn-off rifle, a shotgun, a lever action rifle and five pistols.<br><br>He was taken to Belmont Police Station where he was charged with 35 offences including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Use offensive weapon to prevent lawful detention<\/li><li>Armed with intention to commit indictable offence<\/li><li>Three counts of possess unauthorised firearm<\/li><li>Two counts of possess unregistered firearm not pistol or prohibited firearm<\/li><li>Three counts of not keep firearm safely not pistol or prohibited firearm<\/li><li>Possess unregistered firearm prohibited firearm<\/li><li>Two counts of possess or use a prohibited weapon without permit<\/li><li>Goods suspected stolen in or on premises<\/li><li>Six counts of possess ammunition without holding licence or permit or authority<\/li><li>Five counts of possess unauthorised pistol<\/li><li>Three counts of not keep firearm safely pistol<\/li><li>Three counts of possess unregistered firearm pistol<\/li><li>Possess less than three unregistered firearms, one is prohibited or pistol<\/li><li>Two counts of possess prohibited drug<\/li><li>Supply prohibited drug commercial quantity<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been refused bail to appear in Newcastle Bail Court tomorrow (Saturday 14 October 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged following a 45-hour police operation in the Lake Macquarie region. Officers from the Hunter Region Enforcement Squad attended a home on Lake Road, Swansea, about 3pm Wednesday (11 October 2023), and attempted to speak with a 33-year-old man. Police will allege in court the man instead entered the house and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/man-charged-after-swansea-stand-off\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged after Swansea stand-off\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-23404","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\/23404","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=23404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23405,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23404\/revisions\/23405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}