Police investigating a theft at Newcastle Beach yesterday (Tuesday 13 January 2015); have released an image of a woman they would like to speak to in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n
About 1.10pm, a handbag was taken from a table at a caf\u00e9 on Shortland Esplanade.<\/p>\n
Police were told a woman was allegedly seen to take the handbag and walk towards the Newcastle Beach public toilets.<\/p>\n
The woman was confronted by a witness and the owner of the handbag who then recovered the property from her.<\/p>\n
Police from Newcastle City Local Area Command were contacted and are continuing their investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n
Investigators have now released an image of a person who may be able to assist with their inquiries.<\/p>\n
The person depicted in the image is described as being a female of Aboriginal \/ Torres Strait Islander appearance, about 30-40 years old, with a medium build.<\/p>\n
At the time of the incident, she is shown in the image wearing a grey singlet top, grey hat and sunglasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police investigating a theft at Newcastle Beach yesterday (Tuesday 13 January 2015); have released an image of a woman they would like to speak to in relation to the incident. About 1.10pm, a handbag was taken from a table at a caf\u00e9 on Shortland Esplanade. Police were told a woman was allegedly seen to take … Continue reading “Appeal following stealing incident – 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-1546","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\/1546","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=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}