Six teenagers have been charged following a pursuit in the state\u2019s Hunter Valley Region overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 1.50am this morning (Wednesday 1 January 2025), officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District and Traffic and Highway Patrol Command were notified a Land Rover \u2013 reportedly stolen from a home in Valentine on Tuesday 31 December 2024 \u2013 was travelling along the Hunter Expressway after an earlier pursuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attempted to stop the Land Rover; however, it failed to stop, and a pursuit was initiated, before being terminated due to safety concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PolAir monitored the vehicle which is alleged to have reached speeds of up to 170km\/h in a 100km\/h marked speed zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the Land Rover drove through Belford and Muswellbrook, road spikes were deployed on two occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A short time later, the Land Rover came to a stop on the New England Highway, Muswellbrook, where some of the occupants allegedly attempted to run from the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers arrested six teenagers – and they were taken to Muswellbrook Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Five teenagers \u2013 two boys aged 17, two girls aged 16 and a 16-year-old boy \u2013 were all charged with be carried in conveyance without consent of owner. They were refused bail to appear before a children\u2019s court today 1 January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 15-year-old girl was also charged and granted conditional bail to appear at a children\u2019s court on Tuesday 11 February 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Six teenagers have been charged following a pursuit in the state\u2019s Hunter Valley Region overnight. About 1.50am this morning (Wednesday 1 January 2025), officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District and Traffic and Highway Patrol Command were notified a Land Rover \u2013 reportedly stolen from a home in Valentine on Tuesday 31 December 2024 \u2013 … Continue reading “Six teens arrested following pursuit – Hunter Valley”<\/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-30766","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\/30766","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=30766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30767,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30766\/revisions\/30767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}