A man has been charged after he was arrested by police carrying a replica firearm in Hamilton South last night.<\/p>\n
About 6.30pm (Thursday 1 January 2014), police were patrolling Fowler Street when they were flagged down by a member of the public who directed them to a man allegedly carrying a firearm.<\/p>\n
Officers from Newcastle Local Area Command arrested a 49-year-old Kurri Kurri man. A search revealed the man to be in possession of a replica pistol.<\/p>\n
The replica pistol was seized and will undergo forensic examination.<\/p>\n
The man was taken to Newcastle Police Station and charged with possession of an unauthorised pistol and affray.<\/p>\n
He was granted conditional bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court on Monday 29 January 2015.<\/p>\n
Police will allege that prior to the arrest the man used the replica pistol to threaten another man known to him earlier the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged after he was arrested by police carrying a replica firearm in Hamilton South last night. About 6.30pm (Thursday 1 January 2014), police were patrolling Fowler Street when they were flagged down by a member of the public who directed them to a man allegedly carrying a firearm. Officers from Newcastle … Continue reading “Man charged with carrying replica firearm – Hamilton South”<\/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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio16","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}