A man has been charged after allegedly discharging an air rifle near a public place.
\nAbout 4.30pm on Friday 13 December 2019, police have been told a man was firing an air rifle at a private residence on Quigley Street, Bolton Point, directed at birds in a nearby reserve.
\nYesterday (Sunday 15 December 2019), the matter was reported to police who then commenced inquiries.
\nA short time later, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District attended a property on Quigley Street, Bolton Point, and spoke with a 25-year-old man.
\nPolice allegedly located and seized a loaded air rifle inside the property.
\nThe man was arrested and taken to Toronto Police Station.
\nHe was charged with use firearm in or near public place and not keep firearm safely.
\nHe was refused bail to appear at Toronto Local Court today (Monday 16 December 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged after allegedly discharging an air rifle near a public place. About 4.30pm on Friday 13 December 2019, police have been told a man was firing an air rifle at a private residence on Quigley Street, Bolton Point, directed at birds in a nearby reserve. Yesterday (Sunday 15 December 2019), the … Continue reading “Man charged after allegedly firing air rifle near public place \u2013 Bolton Point”<\/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-4632","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\/4632","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=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}