{"id":6319,"date":"2020-05-01T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T10:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2020-05-01T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T10:06:42","slug":"man-charged-with-possession-of-child-abuse-material-hunter-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/man-charged-with-possession-of-child-abuse-material-hunter-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with possession of child abuse material \u2013 Hunter Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged over the alleged possession of child abuse material and drug offences following an investigation by Strike Force Trawler in the state\u2019s Hunter Region.<br \/>\nIn November 2019, detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crime Squad\u2019s Child Exploitation Internet Unit (CEIU) began investigating a man allegedly sharing and obtaining child exploitation material on a peer to peer network.<br \/>\nFollowing extensive investigations, a search warrant was executed at a home in the Hunter Region about 9am today (Friday 1 May 2020), where detectives seized a laptop, electronic storage devices and prohibited drugs.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/4\">10.30am<\/a>, strike force detectives arrested a 34-year-old man at a nearby workplace.<br \/>\nThe man was taken to Muswellbrook Police Station and charged with three counts of possessing or controlling child abuse material obtained or accessed using a carriage service, supply prohibited drug and two counts of possess prohibited drug.<br \/>\nHe was refused bail and appeared before Newcastle Local Court today (Friday 1 May 2020), where he was granted conditional bail to appear before Muswellbrook Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/7\">on Monday 6 July 2020<\/a>.<br \/>\nStrike Force Trawler is an ongoing investigation by the CEIU into the sexual abuse and exploitation of children facilitated through the internet and related telecommunications devices.<br \/>\nRegular covert online investigations are conducted by the CEIU; and police in NSW work closely with their law-enforcement colleagues interstate and overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged over the alleged possession of child abuse material and drug offences following an investigation by Strike Force Trawler in the state\u2019s Hunter Region. In November 2019, detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crime Squad\u2019s Child Exploitation Internet Unit (CEIU) began investigating a man allegedly sharing and obtaining child exploitation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/man-charged-with-possession-of-child-abuse-material-hunter-region\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged with possession of child abuse material \u2013 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-6319","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\/6319","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=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}