{"id":38577,"date":"2026-04-23T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=38577"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:32:01","slug":"man-charged-with-alleged-cultivate-prohibited-plant-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/man-charged-with-alleged-cultivate-prohibited-plant-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with alleged cultivate prohibited plant \u2013 Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man has been charged after a large hydroponic cannabis set up was discovered in Newcastle yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About&nbsp;3.15pm&nbsp;(Wednesday 22 April 2026), police attended a home on Morris Street, Birmingham Gardens, to execute a search warrant as part of an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the home, officers from the Hunter Region Enforcement Squad allegedly located a large hydroponic cannabis set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of the search, officers allegedly located and seized 331 cannabis plants, and 23kg cannabis leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 39-year-old man was arrested and taken to Waratah Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There he was charged with three offences,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Knowingly take part-cultivate (greater than or equal to commercial quantity prohibited plant)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supply cannabis (greater than indictable and less than commercial quantity), and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Divert\/use electricity for generating etc system without authority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>He was refused bail to appear before Bail Division Court 2 today (Thursday 23 April 2026), where he was formally refused bail to appear before Newcastle Local Court&nbsp;on Wednesday 17 June 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after a large hydroponic cannabis set up was discovered in Newcastle yesterday afternoon. About&nbsp;3.15pm&nbsp;(Wednesday 22 April 2026), police attended a home on Morris Street, Birmingham Gardens, to execute a search warrant as part of an ongoing investigation. At the home, officers from the Hunter Region Enforcement Squad allegedly located a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/man-charged-with-alleged-cultivate-prohibited-plant-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged with alleged cultivate prohibited plant \u2013 Newcastle&#8221;<\/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-38577","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\/38577","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=38577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38578,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38577\/revisions\/38578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}