{"id":7812,"date":"2020-08-23T16:29:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T16:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7812"},"modified":"2020-08-23T16:29:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T16:29:56","slug":"charges-after-ammunition-found-east-maitland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/23\/charges-after-ammunition-found-east-maitland\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges after ammunition found \u2013 East Maitland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man wanted by police has been arrested and charged with additional ammunition offences in the Port Stephens-Hunter region yesterday.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">9.30pm<\/a> (Sunday 23 August 2020), officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District attended an address on Blackett Close, East Maitland, to speak to a man wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant for a break and enter offence in Wickham during November 2019.<br \/>\nUpon arrival, police observed a man running from the rear of the premises, and after a short foot pursuit, a 35-year-old man was arrested on nearby Mitchell Drive.<br \/>\nFollowing a search of the area, police located a black satchel bag, allegedly containing 40 rounds of .22 calibre ammunition, a spent shell casing and three air rifle pellets.<br \/>\nThe man was taken to Maitland Police Station where he was charged with possess ammunition without holding licence\/permit\/authority. The warrant was also executed for the offence of special aggravated break and enter and commit serious indictable offence-weapon.<br \/>\nHe was refused bail to appear in Maitland Local Court today (Monday 24 August 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man wanted by police has been arrested and charged with additional ammunition offences in the Port Stephens-Hunter region yesterday. About 9.30pm (Sunday 23 August 2020), officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District attended an address on Blackett Close, East Maitland, to speak to a man wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant for a break &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/23\/charges-after-ammunition-found-east-maitland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Charges after ammunition found \u2013 East Maitland&#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-7812","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\/7812","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=7812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}