A man has been charged after a suspicious item was located in the Hunter yesterday.
\nAbout 1.40pm (Wednesday 30 September 2020), officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were called to a defence facility at Williamtown after a suspicious item was located.
\nAn exclusion zone was established and with the assistance of specialist resources, the scene was declared safe about 4pm.
\nOfficers launched an investigation into the incident and following extensive inquiries, a 60-year-old man was arrested at a Lake Macquarie home later that afternoon.
\nHe was taken to Belmont Police Station and charged with leave\/send substance\/article create false belief of danger.
\nHe was granted conditional bail to appear at Raymond Terrace Local Court on Monday 19 October 2020.
\nInvestigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged after a suspicious item was located in the Hunter yesterday. About 1.40pm (Wednesday 30 September 2020), officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were called to a defence facility at Williamtown after a suspicious item was located. An exclusion zone was established and with the assistance of specialist resources, the … Continue reading “Man charged after suspicious item found at Hunter defence facility”<\/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-8468","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\/8468","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=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}