{"id":6540,"date":"2020-05-15T05:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2020-05-15T05:03:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:03:23","slug":"rifles-and-drugs-seized-woman-charged-metford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/15\/rifles-and-drugs-seized-woman-charged-metford\/","title":{"rendered":"Rifles and drugs seized; woman charged \u2013 Metford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been charged after drugs and several weapons were seized from a property in the Hunter yesterday.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">6am<\/a> (Thursday 14 May 2020), officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police Target Action Group \u2013 with the assistance of Operation Utah officers \u2013 executed a firearms and weapons prohibition order at a home on Wattle Close, Metford.<br \/>\nDuring the search, police located and seized two long arm rifles, two \u2018gel blaster\u2019 style firearms, cannabis, amphetamines and stolen number plates.<br \/>\nA 35-year-old woman was arrested and taken to Maitland Police Station.<br \/>\nShe was charged with 11 offences, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goods suspected stolen in\/on premises (not m\/v)<\/li>\n<li>Possess prohibited drug (x2)<\/li>\n<li>Acquire etc firearm \u2013 subject to prohibition order<\/li>\n<li>Possess unauthorised firearm (x2)<\/li>\n<li>Possess unauthorised prohibited firearm (x2)<\/li>\n<li>Not keep firearm safely-not prohibited firearm\/pistol<\/li>\n<li>Not keep firearm safely-prohibited firearm<\/li>\n<li>Possess more than three unregistered firearms without licence\/permit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The woman was refused bail to face Newcastle Local Court yesterday (Thursday 14 May 2020), where she was again refused bail to appear at Maitland Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/6\">on Wednesday 27 May 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been charged after drugs and several weapons were seized from a property in the Hunter yesterday. About 6am (Thursday 14 May 2020), officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police Target Action Group \u2013 with the assistance of Operation Utah officers \u2013 executed a firearms and weapons prohibition order at a home on Wattle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/15\/rifles-and-drugs-seized-woman-charged-metford\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rifles and drugs seized; woman charged \u2013 Metford&#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-6540","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\/6540","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=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}