Police have arrested an inmate following a manhunt across the Newcastle area today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday (14 April 2026), police were notified that an inmate at a correctional facility in Grafton, had been incorrectly released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the report officers immediately commenced a search to locate the 35-year-old man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the search, police determined the man had travelled from Grafton to the Newcastle area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following extensive inquiries, officers attached to Newcastle City Police District Domestic Violence Team arrested the 35-year-old on Boreas Street, Hamilton North, this afternoon (Thursday 16 April 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has been taken to Newcastle Police Station where he was charged by virtue of an outstanding arrest warrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man was refused bail and will appear before Bail Division Local Court 2 tomorrow (Friday 17 April 2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have arrested an inmate following a manhunt across the Newcastle area today. On Tuesday (14 April 2026), police were notified that an inmate at a correctional facility in Grafton, had been incorrectly released. Following the report officers immediately commenced a search to locate the 35-year-old man. During the search, police determined the man had … Continue reading “Escaped inmate arrested following manhunt \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-38463","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\/38463","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=38463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38464,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463\/revisions\/38464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}