{"id":27717,"date":"2024-07-07T04:17:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=27717"},"modified":"2024-07-07T04:17:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T04:17:14","slug":"men-charged-after-police-officer-injured-during-arrest-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/men-charged-after-police-officer-injured-during-arrest-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Men charged after police officer injured during arrest &#8211; Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two men have been charged after a police officer was injured during an arrest in the state\u2019s north this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just after 3.20am on Saturday 6 July 2024, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were called to Awaba Road in Toronto following an alleged domestic incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the arrival of police, two men become hostile and barricaded themselves inside the home before entry was forced through the rear door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside, police arrested two men \u2013 one in possession of knuckle dusters and a ring knife \u2013 who struggled against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the arrest, one officer suffered a laceration to his leg, hand and torso, and was taken to hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other officers on scene suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The men were taken to Toronto Police Station, where the 35-year-old man was charged with 8 offences, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Intimidate police officer in execution of duty,<\/li><li>Wound person with intent to resist\/prevent arrest etc,<\/li><li>Cause grievous bodily harm to police officer on duty reckless as to actual bodily harm,<\/li><li>Use etc offensive weapon to prevent lawful detention etc,<\/li><li>Armed with intent commit indictable offence,<\/li><li>Possess or use a prohibited weapon without permit,<\/li><li>Hinder or resist police officer in the execution of duty, and<\/li><li>Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (DV).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The 28-year-old man was charged with five offences, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Two counts of intimidate police officer in execution of duty without actual bodily harm,<\/li><li>Hinder or resist police officer in the execution of duty, and<\/li><li>Destroy or damage property (DV).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Both men were refused bail to appear in Newcastle Local Court tomorrow (Sunday 7 July 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been charged after a police officer was injured during an arrest in the state\u2019s north this morning. Just after 3.20am on Saturday 6 July 2024, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were called to Awaba Road in Toronto following an alleged domestic incident. On the arrival of police, two men become &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/men-charged-after-police-officer-injured-during-arrest-toronto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Men charged after police officer injured during arrest &#8211; Toronto&#8221;<\/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-27717","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\/27717","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=27717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27718,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717\/revisions\/27718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}