Police are seeking assistance from the public as investigations continue into a robbery in the Newcastle area overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 9.15pm on Thursday 16 November 2023, police have been told a man entered a service station on Elizabeth Street, Tighes Hill, and threatened the female attendant and demanded money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The attendant handed over a sum of money from the cash register before the man fled the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman was not physically injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers from Newcastle City Police District were notified and commenced an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Investigators have released a description of a man who may be able to assist with their inquiries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man is described as being aged in his mid40s, dark complexion, about 180cm tall, medium build, wearing a red T-shirt, black shorts and a black face mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are seeking assistance from the public as investigations continue into a robbery in the Newcastle area overnight. About 9.15pm on Thursday 16 November 2023, police have been told a man entered a service station on Elizabeth Street, Tighes Hill, and threatened the female attendant and demanded money. The attendant handed over a sum of … Continue reading “Appeal for information following robbery \u2013 Newcastle\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-24075","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\/24075","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=24075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24076,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions\/24076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}