{"id":5677,"date":"2020-03-27T08:42:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2020-03-27T08:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:42:39","slug":"man-charged-with-multiple-offences-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/27\/man-charged-with-multiple-offences-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with multiple offences \u2013 Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged as part of an investigation into the alleged theft of a boat worth $280,000 and a ute valued at $135,000.<br \/>\nAt 4.30am on Saturday 14 March 2020, a black Ford F150 and a Super G23 boat were stolen from outside a house at Swansea Heads, Lake Macquarie.<br \/>\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie Police District commenced an investigation and identified the vehicle as being associated with fraud offences that were committed in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond.<br \/>\nLater the same day, the truck and boat were recovered at Caves Beach.<br \/>\nAbout 5.00am today (Friday 27 March 2020), Lake Macquarie Police received information that two men had been disturbed allegedly breaking into a parked car at Catherine Hill Bay and had driven off in a blue Holden Astra sedan.<br \/>\nPolice attended and located three men trying to fix a flat tyre, on a vehicle parked next to a Holden Astra at Flowers Drive, Catherine Hill Bay.<br \/>\nA search of the men discovered items police believe to be stolen or otherwise illegally obtained.<br \/>\nThe three men were arrested and taken to Belmont Police Station.<br \/>\nIn relation to the Swansea Heads theft and frauds, a 19-year-old Tingira Heights man was charged with take and drive conveyance and dishonestly obtain a financial advantage by deception. He was also charged with goods in custody and possessing house breaking implements arising from his arrest today.<br \/>\nHe was refused bail and appeared at Newcastle Local Court today (Friday 27 March 2020). He has since been granted conditional bail, to re-appear at the same Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/9\">on Thursday 4 June 2020<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe two other men aged 24 and 28 were released, pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged as part of an investigation into the alleged theft of a boat worth $280,000 and a ute valued at $135,000. At 4.30am on Saturday 14 March 2020, a black Ford F150 and a Super G23 boat were stolen from outside a house at Swansea Heads, Lake Macquarie. Officers from Lake &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/27\/man-charged-with-multiple-offences-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged with multiple offences \u2013 Lake Macquarie&#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-5677","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\/5677","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=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}