{"id":7153,"date":"2020-07-02T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7153"},"modified":"2020-07-02T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:53:00","slug":"explosive-detonators-cash-seized-man-charged-hunter-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/02\/explosive-detonators-cash-seized-man-charged-hunter-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive detonators, cash seized; man charged &#8211; Hunter region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after prohibited drugs and explosive devices were located at a home in the Hunter region yesterday.<br \/>\nOfficers attached to the Hunter Valley Police District Proactive Crime Team conducted a Firearms Prohibition Order (FPO) search at a home on Fifth Street, Weston, about 10.30am (Wednesday 1 July 2020).<br \/>\nDuring the search, police located and seized an amount of methylamphetamine, cannabis, more than $10,000 cash, drug paraphernalia, and explosive detonators.<br \/>\nPolice arrested a 36-year-old man at the scene and he was taken to Cessnock Police Station.<br \/>\nHe was charged with seven offences including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possess prohibited drug (x4)<\/li>\n<li>Possess, supply or make explosive for unlawful purpose<\/li>\n<li>Goods in custody suspected being stolen (x2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He was refused bail to face Newcastle Local Court today (Thursday 2 July 2020).<br \/>\nSpecialist police were called to the station to safely destroy the explosive materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after prohibited drugs and explosive devices were located at a home in the Hunter region yesterday. Officers attached to the Hunter Valley Police District Proactive Crime Team conducted a Firearms Prohibition Order (FPO) search at a home on Fifth Street, Weston, about 10.30am (Wednesday 1 July 2020). During the search, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/02\/explosive-detonators-cash-seized-man-charged-hunter-region\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Explosive detonators, cash seized; man charged &#8211; 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-7153","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\/7153","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=7153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}