A man has been charged after he allegedly painted offensive graffiti on a shopfront in Newcastle this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 7.30am (Sunday 12 January 2025), a man approached a chemist on Beaumont Street, Hamilton, before he allegedly painted an offensive symbol on a side wall of the premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers from Newcastle City Police District were notified and established a crime scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, about 10am, the 47-year-old man was arrested nearby and taken to Newcastle Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was charged with intentionally mark premises etc without prescribed consent and knowingly display by public act Nazi symbol without excuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man was refused bail and will appear at Newcastle Local Court tomorrow (Monday 13 January 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NSW Police Force takes hate crimes seriously and encourages anyone who is the victim of a hate crime or witnesses a hate crime to report the matter to police through Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or through Triple Zero (000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is important that the community and police continue to work together to make NSW a safer place for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged after he allegedly painted offensive graffiti on a shopfront in Newcastle this morning. About 7.30am (Sunday 12 January 2025), a man approached a chemist on Beaumont Street, Hamilton, before he allegedly painted an offensive symbol on a side wall of the premises. Officers from Newcastle City Police District were notified … Continue reading “Man charged after offensive graffiti located on shopfront – Newcastle”<\/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-30855","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\/30855","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=30855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30856,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30855\/revisions\/30856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}