{"id":5481,"date":"2020-03-17T13:10:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5481"},"modified":"2020-03-17T13:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:10:38","slug":"guns-seized-man-charged-with-15-offences-hunter-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/guns-seized-man-charged-with-15-offences-hunter-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns seized, man charged with 15 offences &#8211; Hunter region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man will appear in court today after being charged with a range of traffic and firearm related offences following an investigation in the state\u2019s Hunter region.<br \/>\nPolice will allege about 6.40pm on Saturday 28 December 2019, a stolen Holden Rodeo utility was involved in a fail to stop crash on the New England Highway, Hexham, where it collided with the rear of another vehicle, before the male driver fled the scene on foot.<br \/>\nUpon a search of the Rodeo, police located ammunition inside the cabin and a rifle hidden under the tray.<br \/>\nOfficers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District\u2019s Target Action Group commenced an investigation into the incident.<br \/>\nFollowing inquiries, a man was arrested at a house on Goldingham Street, Tenambit, 7km east of Maitland, about 9.15am today (Wednesday 17 March 2020).<br \/>\nA Firearms Prohibition Order was executed and during the search, police seized a sawn-off shot gun which will undergo forensic examination.<br \/>\nThe 33-year-old man was taken to Maitland Police Station where he was charged with;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take and drive conveyance without consent of owner<\/li>\n<li>Drive whilst disqualified<\/li>\n<li>Two counts of negligent driving<\/li>\n<li>Be carried in conveyance taken without consent of owner.<\/li>\n<li>Unlawfully possess thing resembles number plate<\/li>\n<li>Use vehicle with unauthorised number plate<\/li>\n<li>Not give particulars to other driver<\/li>\n<li>Two counts of possess shortened firearm<\/li>\n<li>Two counts of not keep firearm safely<\/li>\n<li>Possess loaded firearm public place<\/li>\n<li>Acquire ammunition subject to prohibition<\/li>\n<li>Two counts of acquire prohibited firearm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He was refused bail to appear before Maitland Local Court today (Wednesday 17 March 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man will appear in court today after being charged with a range of traffic and firearm related offences following an investigation in the state\u2019s Hunter region. Police will allege about 6.40pm on Saturday 28 December 2019, a stolen Holden Rodeo utility was involved in a fail to stop crash on the New England Highway, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/guns-seized-man-charged-with-15-offences-hunter-region\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guns seized, man charged with 15 offences &#8211; Hunter region&#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-5481","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\/5481","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=5481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}