{"id":4545,"date":"2019-12-08T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2019-12-08T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T14:54:19","slug":"man-in-court-over-firearm-and-weapons-offences-edgeworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/08\/man-in-court-over-firearm-and-weapons-offences-edgeworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in court over firearm and weapons offences &#8211; Edgeworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with firearms and weapons offences after seizing an explosive device from a property in the Lake Macquarie region.<br \/>\nJust after midnight yesterday (Saturday 7 December 2019), officers from Newcastle City Police District attended a property in Edgeworth, following reports a firearm with an expired licence was being stored at the location.<br \/>\nPolice spoke with the occupant, a 35-year-old man, who surrendered the firearm, and conducted a safe storage inspection at the property.<br \/>\nDuring the search, officers allegedly located a gun safe that was not properly secured. They also located ammunition, cannabis, and an improvised explosive device (IED).<br \/>\nThe Rescue and Bomb Disposal Unit attended and rendered the IED safe.<br \/>\nThe 35-year-old man was arrested and taken to Waratah Police Station.<br \/>\nHe was charged with eight offences, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two counts of possess or use prohibited weapon without permit,<\/li>\n<li>manufacture military-style weapon without a permit,<\/li>\n<li>manufacture firearm without a licence or permit,<\/li>\n<li>possess unauthorised prohibited firearm,<\/li>\n<li>possess or use military-style weapon without permit,<\/li>\n<li>not keep firearm safely, and<\/li>\n<li>possess prohibited drug.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The man was refused bail and appeared at Newcastle Local Court today (Sunday 8 December 2019), where he was formally refused bail to appear before the same court tomorrow (Monday 9 December 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with firearms and weapons offences after seizing an explosive device from a property in the Lake Macquarie region. Just after midnight yesterday (Saturday 7 December 2019), officers from Newcastle City Police District attended a property in Edgeworth, following reports a firearm with an expired licence was being stored at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/08\/man-in-court-over-firearm-and-weapons-offences-edgeworth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man in court over firearm and weapons offences &#8211; Edgeworth&#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-4545","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\/4545","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=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}