A man will appear in court tomorrow after allegedly spitting on two NSW Ambulance paramedics on the state\u2019s Manning-Great Lakes area earlier this week.
\nAbout 2pm on Monday 13 April 2020, paramedics were called to a home on Macintosh Street, Forster, due to a man suffering injuries to his ribs.
\nOn arrival paramedics were met by a 53-year-old man who appeared well affected by alcohol and complaining of pain to his ribs.
\nThe man required further treatment and was placed in the ambulance to be transported to hospital.
\nOn the way it\u2019s alleged the man twice spat on the two male paramedics. He was assisted out of the ambulance by waiting security staff at Manning Base Hospital where he was treated and later released.
\nThe incident was reported to officers at Manning Great Lakes Police District and an investigation commenced.
\nToday (Tuesday 14 April 2020), police attended an address in Forster where they arrested the 53-year-old man. He was taken to Forster Police Station where he was charged with two counts of common assault (spitting).
\nHe was refused bail and will appear via video link at Port Macquarie Local Court tomorrow (Wednesday 15 April 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will appear in court tomorrow after allegedly spitting on two NSW Ambulance paramedics on the state\u2019s Manning-Great Lakes area earlier this week. About 2pm on Monday 13 April 2020, paramedics were called to a home on Macintosh Street, Forster, due to a man suffering injuries to his ribs. On arrival paramedics were met … Continue reading “Man charged after allegedly spitting on NSW Ambulance paramedics”<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","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=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}