{"id":5050,"date":"2020-02-07T05:17:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2020-02-07T05:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:17:56","slug":"man-charged-after-copper-cable-stolen-at-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/man-charged-after-copper-cable-stolen-at-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after copper cable stolen at Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court today over the alleged ongoing theft of copper cable in Newcastle.<br \/>\nIn January 2020, officers attached to Newcastle City Target Action Group commenced an investigation into the alleged theft of a large amount of copper cabling from an area of the Port of Newcastle.<br \/>\nFollowing extensive inquiries, police executed a search warrant at a home on Tully Street, Carrington, and arrested a 45-year-old man about 2.30pm yesterday (Thursday 6 February 2020).<br \/>\nPolice will allege the man broke into a storage area located at the Port of Newcastle on Thursday 30 January, Saturday 1 February, Tuesday 4 February and Wednesday 5 February, removed a large amount of copper cabling and damaged equipment.<br \/>\nThe 45-year-old man was taken to Newcastle Police Station and charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aggravated break and enter dwelling etc in company steal less than $60,000<\/li>\n<li>Break and enter house etc steal value less than $60,000 (x3)<\/li>\n<li>Drive motor vehicle during disqualification period<\/li>\n<li>Deal with property proceeds of crime less than $100,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He was refused bail to face Newcastle Local Court today (Friday 7 February 2020).<br \/>\nInvestigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court today over the alleged ongoing theft of copper cable in Newcastle. In January 2020, officers attached to Newcastle City Target Action Group commenced an investigation into the alleged theft of a large amount of copper cabling from an area of the Port of Newcastle. Following extensive inquiries, police executed a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/man-charged-after-copper-cable-stolen-at-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged after copper cable stolen at 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-5050","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\/5050","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=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}