{"id":8047,"date":"2020-09-06T15:46:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2020-09-06T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T15:46:20","slug":"disqualified-driver-charged-after-attempting-to-cross-nsw-victoria-border-with-passenger-hiding-in-car-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/06\/disqualified-driver-charged-after-attempting-to-cross-nsw-victoria-border-with-passenger-hiding-in-car-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Disqualified driver charged after attempting to cross NSW\/Victoria border with passenger hiding in car boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disqualified driver has been charged after allegedly attempting to travel across the NSW\/Victorian border with a passenger hiding in the car boot.<br \/>\nAbout 8.45am yesterday (Saturday 5 September 2020), police stopped a Mitsubishi Magna at a checkpoint on the Hume Highway, Albury.<br \/>\nThe driver, a 34-year-old man, produced a valid permit but was unable to produce identification, and further checks revealed he was disqualified from driving.<br \/>\nHe was arrested and a search of the vehicle was conducted.<br \/>\nDuring the search, police found a 41-year-old woman hiding in the boot of the Mitsubishi. She was unable to produce a permit and directed to return to Victoria.<br \/>\nThe woman left in the Mitsubishi and allegedly travelled through a red light.<br \/>\nShe was issued with two Traffic Infringement Notices for not stop at stop line at red light, passenger not occupy seat with seatbelt and a $1000 Penalty Infringement Notice for fail to comply requirement public health order \u2013 COVID-19.<br \/>\nThe West Wodonga man was taken to Albury Police Station and charged with not comply with noticed direction re section 7\/8\/9 -COVID-19, driver motor vehicle during disqualified period, and drive with passenger in\/on part of vehicle no seatbelt.<br \/>\nHe was refused bail and appeared at Wagga Wagga Bail Court today (Sunday 6 September 2020) where he was formally refused bail to reappear at Albury Local Court tomorrow (Monday 7 September 2020).<br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone who has information regarding individuals or businesses in contravention of a COVID-19-related ministerial direction is urged to contact Crime Stoppers:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\"><strong><em title=\"\">https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <strong><em>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":"<p>A disqualified driver has been charged after allegedly attempting to travel across the NSW\/Victorian border with a passenger hiding in the car boot. About 8.45am yesterday (Saturday 5 September 2020), police stopped a Mitsubishi Magna at a checkpoint on the Hume Highway, Albury. The driver, a 34-year-old man, produced a valid permit but was unable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/06\/disqualified-driver-charged-after-attempting-to-cross-nsw-victoria-border-with-passenger-hiding-in-car-boot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disqualified driver charged after attempting to cross NSW\/Victoria border with passenger hiding in car boot&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8047","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\/8047","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=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}