{"id":9778,"date":"2020-12-24T06:08:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9778"},"modified":"2020-12-24T06:08:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:08:35","slug":"man-charged-with-affray-following-hotel-brawl-hunter-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/24\/man-charged-with-affray-following-hotel-brawl-hunter-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with affray following hotel brawl \u2013 Hunter Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man will appear in court following investigations into a brawl at a hotel in Branxton at the weekend.<br \/>\nDuring the evening of Saturday 19 December 2020, several members of the Finks Outlaw Motorcycle Gang attended a hotel in Branxton.<br \/>\nIt will be alleged in court that, while inside the hotel two men, one aged 28, approached two patrons and assaulted them.<br \/>\nOther patrons in the venue came to their aid and separated the group; they all left the location \u2013 including the victims &#8211; prior to the arrival of officers from Hunter Valley Police District.<br \/>\nAbout 10am today (Thursday 24 December 2020), investigators attended a home on Wollombi Road, Bellbird Heights, where they arrested the 28-year-old man.<br \/>\nHe was taken to Hunter Valley Police Station and charged with affray.<br \/>\nThe man was granted conditional bail and will appear in Cessnock Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/4\">on Wednesday 20 January 2021<\/a>.<br \/>\nAs inquiries continue, with the assistance of Strike Force Raptor, officers are seeking information from anyone who may have been at the hotel in the evening of Saturday 19 December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man will appear in court following investigations into a brawl at a hotel in Branxton at the weekend. During the evening of Saturday 19 December 2020, several members of the Finks Outlaw Motorcycle Gang attended a hotel in Branxton. It will be alleged in court that, while inside the hotel two men, one aged &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/24\/man-charged-with-affray-following-hotel-brawl-hunter-valley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged with affray following hotel brawl \u2013 Hunter Valley&#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-9778","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\/9778","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=9778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}