Newcastle City Police have arrested one man after a second man was allegedly stabbed at a sports club near Newcastle yesterday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 7.40pm (Sunday 22 March 2026), emergency services were called to a sports club on Caldwell Street, Merewether, following reports of an assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District attended and were told a man \u2013 who was working as a musician at the club \u2013 had allegedly been stabbed several times near the club\u2019s entrance by another man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The injured man \u2013 aged 69 \u2013 was treated by a doctor at the scene before NSW Ambulance paramedics arrived to continue treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was then taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition with stab wounds to his chest and back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other man allegedly left the area prior to police arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police established a crime scene and Newcastle City detectives commenced an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, detectives arrested a 53-year-old man at a home in Stockton, about 1.40am today (Monday 23 March 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has been taken to Newcastle Police Station where investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Newcastle City Police have arrested one man after a second man was allegedly stabbed at a sports club near Newcastle yesterday evening. About 7.40pm (Sunday 22 March 2026), emergency services were called to a sports club on Caldwell Street, Merewether, following reports of an assault. Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District attended and were told a … Continue reading “Man in custody, second man in serious condition following alleged stabbing \u2013 Merewether”<\/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-38069","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\/38069","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=38069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38070,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38069\/revisions\/38070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}