Two men will appear in court next month after being charged with a break and enter offence near Lake Macquarie.
\nDuring Sunday 28 April 2019 a home in Robina Drive at Hillsborough was broken into and a quantity of Australian currency was stolen.
\nThat afternoon the owner reported the matter to police at Lake Macquarie Police District and officers commenced an investigation.
\nOn Monday 29 April 2019 officers from Lake Macquarie Target Action Group arrested a 20-year-old man at a Roe Street, Mayfield home.
\nOfficers subsequently searched a property at Hamilton South and recovered a quantity of cash.
\nInvestigators then executed a search warrant at a home in Avery Lane at Buchanan and seized a quantity of cash and items of clothing for forensic analysis.
\nFollowing the search warrant a 22-year-old man was arrested at Cessnock Police Station.
\nBoth men were charged with break, enter and steal and knowingly deal with proceeds of crime.
\nThe 20-year-old man was granted conditional bail to appear at Cessnock Local Court on Wednesday 22 May 2019.
\nThe 22-year-old man was granted conditional bail to appear at Cessnock Local Court on Wednesday 29 May 2019.
\nPolice continue with their inquiries into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two men will appear in court next month after being charged with a break and enter offence near Lake Macquarie. During Sunday 28 April 2019 a home in Robina Drive at Hillsborough was broken into and a quantity of Australian currency was stolen. That afternoon the owner reported the matter to police at Lake Macquarie … Continue reading “Men charged after break & enter – Lake Macquarie”<\/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-2553","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\/2553","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=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}