{"id":8081,"date":"2020-09-08T04:33:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T04:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8081"},"modified":"2020-09-08T04:33:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T04:33:30","slug":"man-charged-after-allegedly-threatening-man-with-a-tomahawk-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/man-charged-after-allegedly-threatening-man-with-a-tomahawk-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after allegedly threatening man with a tomahawk \u2013 Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after allegedly threatening a man with a tomahawk in Newcastle overnight.<br \/>\nAbout 7.40pm yesterday (Monday 7 September 2020), police will allege in court that a 39-year-old man was involved in a verbal altercation with a man on Sandgate Road at Shortland.<br \/>\nThe 39-year-old left and returned a short time later allegedly armed with a tomahawk and confronted the man.<br \/>\nOfficers from Newcastle City Police District attended and arrested him at the scene.<br \/>\nHe was taken to Waratah Police Station and charged with affray and armed with intent to commit indictable offence.<br \/>\nHe was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court today (Tuesday 8 September 2020).<br \/>\nAs investigations continue, police are urging anyone who may have witnessed the incident to contact Waratah Police or to call Crime Stoppers on <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"tel:1800%20333%20000\">1800 333 000<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after allegedly threatening a man with a tomahawk in Newcastle overnight. About 7.40pm yesterday (Monday 7 September 2020), police will allege in court that a 39-year-old man was involved in a verbal altercation with a man on Sandgate Road at Shortland. The 39-year-old left and returned a short time later &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/man-charged-after-allegedly-threatening-man-with-a-tomahawk-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged after allegedly threatening man with a tomahawk \u2013 Newcastle&#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-8081","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\/8081","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=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}