A man will appear in court over alleged offences including robbery, malicious damage and assault police, after he was arrested in Tamworth today.<\/p>\n
About 2.40am (Saturday 31 January 2015), an 80-year-old man was driving along Denison Street, when he stopped his vehicle due to a man lying on the road.<\/p>\n
Police have been told the man on the road approached the driver, before allegedly assaulting him and fleeing the scene with a mobile phone.<\/p>\n
The injured man drove to Tamworth Police Station and reported the incident. He suffered facial bleeding and minor arm injuries.<\/p>\n
Officers attached to Oxley Local Area Command commenced investigations and following inquiries, arrested a 21-year-old man at the back of a house on Denison Street.<\/p>\n
Police will allege prior to the arrest, the man threw a chair through a window of the home, was involved in a struggle with police officers, and threw a container of chlorine at police.<\/p>\n
Following his arrest, the man was taken to Tamworth Police Station, where he was charged with robbery, malicious damage, assault police and resist arrest.<\/p>\n
He was granted conditional bail and is scheduled to appear at Tamworth Local Court on 16 February 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will appear in court over alleged offences including robbery, malicious damage and assault police, after he was arrested in Tamworth today. About 2.40am (Saturday 31 January 2015), an 80-year-old man was driving along Denison Street, when he stopped his vehicle due to a man lying on the road. Police have been told the … Continue reading “Man arrested after assaulting 80-year-old man and police – Tamworth”<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","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=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}