A fourth man has been charged following investigations into a series of armed robberies across the Lake Macquarie region earlier this year.
\nDetectives from the State Crime Command\u2019s Robbery and Serious Crime Squad established Strike Force Bergs to investigate eight armed robberies at bowling clubs and a golf club, which occurred between February and May 2019.
\nAs part of their inquiries, three men \u2013 aged 24, 27 and 36 \u2013 were arrested and charged by strike force detectives last month. They remain before the courts.
\nFollowing further investigations, police arrested a 29-year-old man at a home in Tamworth about 10am today (Thursday 25 July 2019).
\nHe was taken to Tamworth Police Station and charged with two counts of robbery armed with offensive weapon.
\nPolice will allege in court this was in connection with an armed robbery at a club in Toronto on Friday 24 May 2019.
\nThe man was refused bail to appear before Tamworth Local Court today (Thursday 25 July 2019).
\nInvestigations under Strike Force Bergs continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A fourth man has been charged following investigations into a series of armed robberies across the Lake Macquarie region earlier this year. Detectives from the State Crime Command\u2019s Robbery and Serious Crime Squad established Strike Force Bergs to investigate eight armed robberies at bowling clubs and a golf club, which occurred between February and May … Continue reading “Fourth man charged over alleged Toronto armed robbery – Strike Force Bergs”<\/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-3358","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\/3358","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=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}