{"id":8493,"date":"2020-10-02T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2020-10-02T00:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:00:20","slug":"two-men-arrested-after-firearm-located-gateshead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/02\/two-men-arrested-after-firearm-located-gateshead\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested after firearm located \u2013 Gateshead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have charged a man after he was allegedly found to be in possession of a firearm in Lake Macquarie yesterday.<br \/>\nShortly before <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">12pm<\/a> (Thursday 1 October 2020), officers attached to Northern Region Operation Utah observed a grey Volkswagen Golf allegedly accelerating away from police on Honeysuckle Drive, Newcastle.<br \/>\nA short time later, police from the Hunter Regional Enforcement Squad and Northern High-Visibility Policing Unit located the car at a carpark of a licensed premises on the Pacific Highway, Gateshead, with a female passenger inside.<br \/>\nDuring a subsequent search of the vehicle, officers allegedly located a sawn-off firearm that was wrapped in clothing and a plastic bag containing ammunition.<br \/>\nThe items were seized for forensic examination.<br \/>\nFollowing further inquiries, two men \u2013 aged 24 and 32 \u2013 were arrested inside the venue and taken to Belmont Police Station<br \/>\nThe 24-year-old was charged with seven offences including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possess unauthorised prohibited firearm;<\/li>\n<li>Possess unregistered firearm-prohibited firearm;<\/li>\n<li>Possess loaded firearm public place;<\/li>\n<li>Possess ammunition without holding licence\/permit\/authority;<\/li>\n<li>Possess shortened firearm (not pistol) without authority;<\/li>\n<li>Not keep firearm safe; and<\/li>\n<li>Drive motor vehicle during disqualification period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 32-year-old was charged with a breach of bail offence.<br \/>\nBoth men were refused bail to appear at Belmont Local Court today (Friday 2 October 2020).<br \/>\nInvestigations are ongoing, anyone who may have witnessed a grey Volkswagen Golf <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/6\">between 11am and 12.30pm<\/a> in the Newcastle area or who may have dashcam footage from the nearby area during these times is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"tel:1800%20333%20000\">1800 333 000<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have charged a man after he was allegedly found to be in possession of a firearm in Lake Macquarie yesterday. Shortly before 12pm (Thursday 1 October 2020), officers attached to Northern Region Operation Utah observed a grey Volkswagen Golf allegedly accelerating away from police on Honeysuckle Drive, Newcastle. A short time later, police from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/02\/two-men-arrested-after-firearm-located-gateshead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two men arrested after firearm located \u2013 Gateshead&#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-8493","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\/8493","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=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}