Police are appealing for public assistance after two men were robbed in separate incidents in Newcastle.<\/p>\n
Just before 10pm on Friday (2 January 2015), a 21-year-old man was approached by three males while he was walking along Turton Road at Waratah.<\/p>\n
The trio threatened the man and demanded money, before fleeing with cash.<\/p>\n
In the second incident, about 7.45pm yesterday (Saturday 3 January 2015), a 35-year-old man was walking from Tuxford Park on King Street at Shortland, when a white hatchback stopped near him.<\/p>\n
The four male occupants got out of the vehicle and approached the man, demanding his phone and wallet.<\/p>\n
The group then assaulted the man before fleeing.<\/p>\n
Police from Newcastle Local Area Command were alerted to both incidents and commenced inquiries.<\/p>\n
The incidents may be linked and it\u2019s believed the vehicle used in the second incident was a stolen 2013-model Toyota Corolla with NSW registration BX37GI.<\/p>\n
Investigators are appealing for public assistance in an attempt to identify and locate those involved.<\/p>\n
Three of the males are described as being of Caucasian appearance and aged in their mid to late teens.<\/p>\n
The fourth is described as Aboriginal \/ Torres Strait Islander appearance and aged in his early 20s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance after two men were robbed in separate incidents in Newcastle. Just before 10pm on Friday (2 January 2015), a 21-year-old man was approached by three males while he was walking along Turton Road at Waratah. The trio threatened the man and demanded money, before fleeing with cash. In the … Continue reading “Police investigate robberies in Newcastle”<\/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-1475","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\/1475","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=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}