A man will face court today charged over an alleged pursuit in Lake Macquarie.
\nAbout 3pm yesterday (Monday 30 March 2020), officers from the Lake Macquarie Police District Target Action Group were patrolling the Belmont North area when they saw a blue Ford Falcon \u2013 which had been reported stolen from Forster last week \u2013 outside a property on Leicester Street.
\nOfficers conducted inquiries at the nearby homes and the surrounding area before a 32-year-old man allegedly got in the driver\u2019s seat of the vehicle and sped from police.
\nPolice initiated a pursuit which continued through several streets in Belmont before the vehicle travelled northbound onto the Pacific Highway at Gateshead, reaching speeds of around 110km\/h in a signposted 60km\/h zone.
\nThe driver continued north, allegedly at speed, through a red light before the vehicle came to a stop at the intersection of the Pacific Highway and South Street, Windale.
\nPolice arrested a 32-year-old man and took him to Belmont Police Station.
\nHe has been charged with police pursuit \u2013 not stop \u2013 drive dangerously, and drive whilst unlicensed.
\nHe has been refused bail to face Newcastle Local Court today (Tuesday 31 March 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will face court today charged over an alleged pursuit in Lake Macquarie. About 3pm yesterday (Monday 30 March 2020), officers from the Lake Macquarie Police District Target Action Group were patrolling the Belmont North area when they saw a blue Ford Falcon \u2013 which had been reported stolen from Forster last week \u2013 … Continue reading “Man charged after police pursuit \u2013 Lake Macquarie”<\/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-5740","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\/5740","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=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}