A man has been charged with 12 offences following two alleged pursuits and a crash in Maitland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 3am on Sunday 22 December 2024, officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District attempted to stop a black Holden Commodore sedan leaving a hotel on Ferodale Road, Medowie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the vehicle failed to stop, a pursuit was initiated and continued to Abundance Road, Medowie, where the car crashed into a home and the driver ran from the scene on foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries into the incident, about 10.30pm yesterday (Tuesday 31 December 2024), police attempted to stop a blue Holden Commodore travelling along Aberglasslyn Road, Rutherford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vehicle failed to stop, and a pursuit was initiated and continued through Rutherford, Lorn and Maitland, where the vehicle crashed into a fuel bowser at a service station on Ken Tubman Drive and the driver fled on foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers stopped the man a short distance away; however, he allegedly resisted arrest when OC spray was deployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 37-year-old man was arrested and taken to Maitland Police Station, where he was charged with 12 offences including two counts of police pursuit – not stop – drive recklessly – 2nd+off-T2, two counts of drive motor vehicle during disqualification period – 2nd+off, possess prohibited drug, goods suspected stolen in\/on premises (not m\/v), and a number of traffic-related offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was refused police bail to appear before Parramatta Bail Court today (Wednesday 1st January 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged with 12 offences following two alleged pursuits and a crash in Maitland. About 3am on Sunday 22 December 2024, officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District attempted to stop a black Holden Commodore sedan leaving a hotel on Ferodale Road, Medowie. When the vehicle failed to stop, a pursuit was … Continue reading “Man charged following pursuit and crash – Maitland”<\/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-30768","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\/30768","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=30768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30769,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30768\/revisions\/30769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}