Officers from Hunter Valley Police District have charged a man after he allegedly threatened two officers with knives at his Muswellbrook home overnight.
\nAbout 8.30pm (Monday 11 December 2018), officers were called to a unit on Skellatar Street after receiving a noise complaint.
\nOn arrival two officers were confronted by a man, aged 44, who police will allege was heavily intoxicated and armed with two knives.
\nPolice will allege the man threatened to stab the officers while walking towards them.
\nThe officers retreated from the unit as they called for urgent assistance and commenced negotiations with the armed man.
\nFollowing short negotiations, the 44-year-old man dropped his weapons and was arrested without incident.
\nHe was taken to Muswellbrook Police Station where he was charged with assault police, armed with intent to commit indictable offence and use offensive weapon to prevent lawful detention.
\nThe man was refused bail and will appear in Muswellbrook Local Court today (Tuesday 11 December 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Officers from Hunter Valley Police District have charged a man after he allegedly threatened two officers with knives at his Muswellbrook home overnight. About 8.30pm (Monday 11 December 2018), officers were called to a unit on Skellatar Street after receiving a noise complaint. On arrival two officers were confronted by a man, aged 44, who … Continue reading “Man charged after allegedly threatening police with knives – Hunter Valley”<\/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-980","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\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}