A man has been charged after allegedly assaulting an off-duty police officer in Newcastle yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 1.30am (Saturday 1 March 2025), emergency services were called to a hotel on Steel Street, Newcastle West, following reports of an assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District arrived and were told a man had been allegedly assaulted by an unknown man after attempting to diffuse an argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man \u2013 an off-duty police officer \u2013 allegedly had liquid thrown on him before being punched in the face and falling unconscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics for serious facial injuries before being taken to hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police immediately commenced an investigation into the incident, and following inquiries, arrested a 31-year-old man at a home on Wharf Road, Newcastle, about 3am the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was taken to Newcastle Police Station where he was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man was refused bail and appeared before Parramatta Local Court yesterday (Saturday 1 March 2025), and granted conditional bail to appear before Newcastle Local Court tomorrow Monday 3 March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged after allegedly assaulting an off-duty police officer in Newcastle yesterday. About 1.30am (Saturday 1 March 2025), emergency services were called to a hotel on Steel Street, Newcastle West, following reports of an assault. Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District arrived and were told a man had been allegedly assaulted by an … Continue reading “Man charged after allegedly assaulting off-duty police officer \u2013 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-31658","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\/31658","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=31658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31659,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31658\/revisions\/31659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}