Three people have been charged during a joint operation between NSW Police Force and Corrective Services NSW at Cessnock Correctional Complex.
\nOn Saturday (27 October 2018), police from Hunter Valley Police District Target Action Group assisted CSNSW officers in the operation, focusing on the screening of visitors to the centre.
\nDuring the operation three offences were detected including a charge of drive whilst suspended, a 34-year-old man charged with possess prohibited drug (2 grams of methamphetamine) and a 28-year-old man was charged with introduce item to correctional facility (tobacco).
\nField Court Attendance Notices were issued for these offences. Court dates are yet to be set.
\nAnother small quantity of cannabis was seized from a vehicle however no charges are expected due to insufficient evidence of possession.
\nFurther operations are expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three people have been charged during a joint operation between NSW Police Force and Corrective Services NSW at Cessnock Correctional Complex. On Saturday (27 October 2018), police from Hunter Valley Police District Target Action Group assisted CSNSW officers in the operation, focusing on the screening of visitors to the centre. During the operation three offences … Continue reading “Joint operation targeting visitors at Cessnock Correctional Complex”<\/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-253","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\/253","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=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}