{"id":7725,"date":"2020-08-17T02:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T02:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2020-08-17T02:13:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T02:13:58","slug":"teens-charged-following-alleged-robbery-and-assaults-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/17\/teens-charged-following-alleged-robbery-and-assaults-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens charged following alleged robbery and assaults \u2013 Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two teenagers have been charged after an alleged robbery and assault in Hamilton yesterday.<br \/>\nShortly after <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">4pm<\/a> (Sunday 16 August 2020), two teenage boys entered a bottle shop on Beaumont Street, and approached a 28-year-old female employee.<br \/>\nWhen the employee asked the pair to leave the store, police will allege in court one of the teenagers threatened the woman before they took bottles of alcohol and fled the store.<br \/>\nOfficers from Newcastle City Police District were called to the scene and began conducting inquiries.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/4\">6.30pm<\/a> the same day, police will further allege the pair were inside a hotel on the same street when they were approached by a 41-year-old male employee.<br \/>\nThe employee asked the pair to leave the venue when one of the teenagers allegedly punched him in the face and threatened him with a knife.<br \/>\nSeveral patrons intervened and the two teenagers exited the venue before allegedly becoming increasing violent towards other patrons.<br \/>\nPolice arrived a short time later and attempted to arrest the pair.<br \/>\nOfficers deployed OC spray before a short foot pursuit ensued and the teenagers, both aged 16, were arrested and taken to Newcastle Police Station.<br \/>\nOne of the teens was charged with two counts of common assault, and one count each of robbery in company, affray and resist officer in execution of duty. He was also charged with outstanding unrelated matters.<br \/>\nThe second teen was charged with robbery in company, affray, resist arrest, assault police and a breach of bail offence.<br \/>\nBoth were refused bail to face a children\u2019s court later today (Monday 17 August 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two teenagers have been charged after an alleged robbery and assault in Hamilton yesterday. Shortly after 4pm (Sunday 16 August 2020), two teenage boys entered a bottle shop on Beaumont Street, and approached a 28-year-old female employee. When the employee asked the pair to leave the store, police will allege in court one of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/17\/teens-charged-following-alleged-robbery-and-assaults-hamilton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teens charged following alleged robbery and assaults \u2013 Hamilton&#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-7725","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\/7725","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=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}