{"id":6224,"date":"2020-04-27T07:06:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6224"},"modified":"2020-04-27T07:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:06:53","slug":"three-pins-issued-after-alleged-gathering-and-non-essential-travel-breaches-taree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/three-pins-issued-after-alleged-gathering-and-non-essential-travel-breaches-taree\/","title":{"rendered":"Three PINs issued after alleged gathering and non-essential travel breaches \u2013 Taree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have issued three COVID-19-related Penalty Infringement Notices (PINs) for offences on the Mid North Coast at the weekend.<br \/>\nOfficers attached to Manning-Great Lakes Police District commenced an investigation into alleged breaches of the Public Health Act 2010 (NSW), which had been documented on social media.<br \/>\nPolice have been told a group of more than 10 men were at a gathering on a rural property near Taree on Saturday 25 April, in contravention of current ministerial directions.<br \/>\nFollowing extensive inquiries, today (Monday 27 April 2020), three men \u2013 two aged 22 and one aged 24 \u2013 have been issued with $1000 PINs for failing to comply with a ministerial direction.<br \/>\nThe 24-year-old had previously received a warning for breaching the Public Health Act.<br \/>\nInquiries are continuing to identify the other persons and continue investigations.<br \/>\nInvestigations are also continuing into other potential offences, including potential breaches of the Firearms Act (1996) at the Taree property.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone who has information regarding individuals or businesses in contravention of a COVID-19-related ministerial direction is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\">https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/a>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have issued three COVID-19-related Penalty Infringement Notices (PINs) for offences on the Mid North Coast at the weekend. Officers attached to Manning-Great Lakes Police District commenced an investigation into alleged breaches of the Public Health Act 2010 (NSW), which had been documented on social media. Police have been told a group of more than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/three-pins-issued-after-alleged-gathering-and-non-essential-travel-breaches-taree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three PINs issued after alleged gathering and non-essential travel breaches \u2013 Taree&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6224","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\/6224","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=6224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}