A man will appear in court today after allegedly threatening two NSW Ambulance paramedics with a knife in the state\u2019s Hunter region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 9:35am yesterday (Monday 2 December 2024), NSW Ambulance paramedics were called to a property on Johnson Avenue, Weston, following reports of a man in need to medical treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While attempting to treat the 53-year-old man he allegedly threatened paramedics with a knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended and arrested the man, who was taken to Cessnock Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has been charged with armed with intent commit indictable offence and assault frontline health worker-no actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was refused bail to appear before Cessnock Local Court today (Tuesday 3 December 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will appear in court today after allegedly threatening two NSW Ambulance paramedics with a knife in the state\u2019s Hunter region. About 9:35am yesterday (Monday 2 December 2024), NSW Ambulance paramedics were called to a property on Johnson Avenue, Weston, following reports of a man in need to medical treatment. While attempting to treat … Continue reading “Man charged after allegedly threatening paramedics with knife in Hunter region”<\/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-30365","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\/30365","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=30365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30366,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365\/revisions\/30366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}