{"id":8077,"date":"2020-09-08T00:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T00:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2020-09-08T00:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T00:43:23","slug":"images-released-as-police-investigate-aggravated-robbery-in-merewether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/images-released-as-police-investigate-aggravated-robbery-in-merewether\/","title":{"rendered":"Images released as police investigate aggravated robbery in Merewether"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released CCTV images and are appealing for public assistance following an aggravated robbery in Newcastle at the weekend.<br \/>\nAbout 3pm on Saturday (5 September 2020), a 45-year-old man parked a blue BMW M2 coupe on Lloyd Street, Merewether, and sat down on a nearby bench.<br \/>\nA short time later, three unknown men arrived in a Toyota Kluger 4WD \u2013 believed to have been stolen from an Islington address the day before (Friday 4 September 2020) \u2013 when they approached the man and punched him before taking his keys, wallet and phone.<br \/>\nAll three men drove away in the BMW and were last seen heading west towards Scenic Drive.<br \/>\nOfficers from Newcastle City Police District were called and commenced an investigation.<br \/>\nAs inquiries continue, police have released CCTV images of three men they wish to speak to who may be able to assist with their inquiries.<br \/>\nThey are all described as being of Aboriginal\/Torres Strait Islander appearance and aged in their mid-20s.<br \/>\nOne man is also described as being of a solid build, with mohawk-style hair and a ponytail. He was last seen wearing a grey hoodie.<br \/>\nA second man is described as being of slim build, wearing a black t-shirt and jeans.<br \/>\nPolice are also appealing for anyone who may have seen a blue BMW M2 coupe with NSW registration DSS 71W, to contact police or Crime Stoppers on <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"tel:1800%20333%20000\">1800 333 000<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released CCTV images and are appealing for public assistance following an aggravated robbery in Newcastle at the weekend. About 3pm on Saturday (5 September 2020), a 45-year-old man parked a blue BMW M2 coupe on Lloyd Street, Merewether, and sat down on a nearby bench. A short time later, three unknown men arrived &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/images-released-as-police-investigate-aggravated-robbery-in-merewether\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Images released as police investigate aggravated robbery in Merewether&#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-8077","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\/8077","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=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}