{"id":40927,"date":"2026-09-23T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=40927"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:54:16","slug":"appeal-for-information-after-armed-robbery-hunter-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/appeal-for-information-after-armed-robbery-hunter-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for information after armed robbery \u2013 Hunter Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detectives are appealing for information following an armed robbery in the Hunter Valley earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly before 4am on Sunday 31 May 2026, police were called to a service station in Kurri Kurri following reports of an armed robbery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crime scene was established and examined by specialist forensic officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An investigation into the incident commenced by Hunter Valley Detectives under Strike Force Bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As inquiries continue, detectives have released CCTV footage and images of a man who might be able to assist with inquiries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man is described as being of Caucasian appearance, aged in his 20s, about 180cm tall, and of a thin build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was seen wearing a black face covering, black hooded jumper, black tracksuit pants, black and white shoes, and carrying a black cross-body bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives are appealing for information following an armed robbery in the Hunter Valley earlier this year. Shortly before 4am on Sunday 31 May 2026, police were called to a service station in Kurri Kurri following reports of an armed robbery. A crime scene was established and examined by specialist forensic officers. An investigation into the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/appeal-for-information-after-armed-robbery-hunter-valley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal for information after armed robbery \u2013 Hunter Valley&#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-40927","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\/40927","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=40927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40928,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40927\/revisions\/40928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}