{"id":7783,"date":"2020-08-20T06:01:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2020-08-20T06:01:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:01:28","slug":"covid-19-update-man-charged-with-drug-possession-at-barham-man-charged-over-failure-to-comply-at-unanderra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/covid-19-update-man-charged-with-drug-possession-at-barham-man-charged-over-failure-to-comply-at-unanderra\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 update: Man charged with drug possession at Barham, man charged over failure to comply at Unanderra"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man will face court after police discovered a prohibited drug in a car while carrying out border operations.
\nAbout 10.20pm on Wednesday 19 August 2020, police were conducting border checks on Thule Street, Barham, as part of Operation Border Closure when they stopped a Toyota Echo, driven by a 47-year-old man.
\nWhile carrying out permit checks, officers observed a woman in the front passenger seat allegedly under the influence of drugs.
\nThe woman was treated by ambulance paramedics before being taken to Cohuna Hospital in Victoria.
\nDuring a search of the vehicle, officers allegedly located and seized drug-related items including a jar containing a clear liquid believed to be Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB).
\nThe driver was issued a Field Court Attendance Notice for possess a prohibited drug.
\nHe will appear at Moama Local Court on Wednesday 9 September 2020<\/a>.
\nIn a separate incident, a man was charged after allegedly failing to comply with a direction on the state\u2019s south coast.<\/p>\n

About 8.30pm on Friday 7 August 2020, a 31-year-old man was refused entry to a club on Hargreaves Street, Unanderra.<\/p>\n

The man allegedly became argumentative with staff and refused to leave the premises, before moving towards staff and coughing into his hands, saying he had COVID-19. The man left the scene and the incident was reported to police.<\/p>\n

Following inquiries, licensing officers from Lake Illawarra Police District arrested a man in a car outside a house on Moran Street, Dapto, about 7.45am yesterday (Wednesday 19 August 2020).<\/p>\n

He was taken to Lake Illawarra Police Station, where he was charged with not comply with noticed direction re spitting\/coughing \u2013 COVID-19, stalk\/intimidate intend fear physical etc harm (personal), excluded person fail to leave premises when required.<\/p>\n

He was granted conditional bail to appear at Port Kembla Local Court on Wednesday 30 September 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000<\/a> or <\/em><\/strong>https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A man will face court after police discovered a prohibited drug in a car while carrying out border operations. About 10.20pm on Wednesday 19 August 2020, police were conducting border checks on Thule Street, Barham, as part of Operation Border Closure when they stopped a Toyota Echo, driven by a 47-year-old man. While carrying out … Continue reading “COVID-19 update: Man charged with drug possession at Barham, man charged over failure to comply at Unanderra”<\/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-7783","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\/7783","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=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}