Three teens and a child have been charged under Operation Soteria after an alleged pursuit in the states north today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 6.50am (Tuesday 9 December 2025), officers attached to Port-Stephens Hunter Police District attempted to stop a vehicle on the Pacific Highway, Heatherbrae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the vehicle allegedly failed to stop as directed, a pursuit was initiated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vehicle allegedly continued towards Karuah where road spikes were deployed; however, the pursuit was terminated due to safety concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A short time later officers attached to Operation Soteria observed the vehicle travelling north along the Pacific Highway, Tea Gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police will allege the vehicle crashed into a median strip before stopping near Nabiac. The vehicle then allegedly conducted a U-turn and crashed into two marked police vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vehicle continued travelling northbound before road spikes were successfully deployed and the vehicle stopped after crashing into a road sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four occupants allegedly ran from the scene; however, were arrested a short distance away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were taken to Taree Police Station where the driver \u2013 a 15-year-old boy \u2013 was charged with police pursuit \u2013 not stop \u2013 drive dangerously and drive conveyance taken without consent of owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was refused bail and appeared at Parramatta Bail Division Court today (Tuesday 9 December 2025) where he was granted bail to appear before a children\u2019s court on Tuesday (16 December 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The passengers \u2013 aged 11, 13 and 14 were charged with be carried in conveyance taken without consent of owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 13-year-old boy was refused bail and appeared before Parramatta Bail Division Court today (Tuesday 9 December 2025), where he was formally granted conditional bail to appear before a children\u2019s court on Thursday 11 December 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 14-year-old boy was refused bail and appeared before Parramatta Bail Division Court today (Tuesday 9 December 2025), where he was formally granted bail to appear before a children\u2019s court on Monday 2 March 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 11-year-old boy was given conditional bail and will appear before a children\u2019s court on Thursday 5 February 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three teens and a child have been charged under Operation Soteria after an alleged pursuit in the states north today. About 6.50am (Tuesday 9 December 2025), officers attached to Port-Stephens Hunter Police District attempted to stop a vehicle on the Pacific Highway, Heatherbrae. When the vehicle allegedly failed to stop as directed, a pursuit was … Continue reading “Four charged after pursuit \u2013 Heatherbrae”<\/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-36468","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\/36468","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=36468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36469,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36468\/revisions\/36469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}