Police have located a hydroponic cannabis set-up following an alleged domestic violence incident yesterday.
\nAbout 4.40pm on Thursday (14 May 2020), officers attached to Port Stephens – Hunter Police District received a domestic-related complaint and attended a home at Lowe Street, Clarencetown.
\nOfficers spoke with the occupant, a 39-year- old woman, but the man had fled the scene.
\nOfficers later stopped the man at Lemon Tree Passage in a Holden Commodore, where he was arrested and taken to Raymond Terrance Police Station.
\nAfter receiving further information, a warrant was executed at the Lowe Street home.
\nDuring a search of the home, officers located and seized an elaborate hydroponic set-up contained within an internal room. Cannabis plants in various stages of growth, including seedlings (24) small plants(19) and mature plants (24), was located.
\nOfficers returned to the property on Friday (15 May 2020), to continue the search, where police located an amount of firearms ammunition.
\nThe man was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm (DV), two counts of contravene prohibition\/restriction in AVO (Domestic), stalk\/intimidate intend fear physical harm (Domestic), use unregistered class A motor vehicle, use uninsured motor vehicle, use\/consume\/waste electricity without authority, possess ammunition w\/o holding licence, possess prohibited plant, cultivate prohibited plant and possess prohibited drug.
\nHe was refused bail to appear at Raymond Terrance Local Court today (Friday 15 May 2020)
\nInquiries continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have located a hydroponic cannabis set-up following an alleged domestic violence incident yesterday. About 4.40pm on Thursday (14 May 2020), officers attached to Port Stephens – Hunter Police District received a domestic-related complaint and attended a home at Lowe Street, Clarencetown. Officers spoke with the occupant, a 39-year- old woman, but the man had … Continue reading “Man charged with domestic violence, drug and firearm offences \u2013 Clarencetown”<\/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-6542","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\/6542","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=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}