Police have charged a man in relation to the theft of 300kg of copper wire from a coal mine in the Lake Macquarie region.<\/p>\n
Officers stopped a white Nissan Pulsar in the Warners Bay area about 4pm on Monday (2 March 2015).<\/p>\n
During a search of the car, police seized three 100kg spools of 10mm copper wire from within the vehicle.<\/p>\n
This was the amount of wire reported stolen from a coal mine at Black Hill between Friday 27 February and Sunday 1 March 2015. The value of the wire is about $3,500.<\/p>\n
The driver of the vehicle \u2013 a 38-year-old man who is employed at the mine \u2013 was arrested and taken to Charlestown Police Station.<\/p>\n
He has been charged with larceny, goods in custody, and possess prescribed restricted substance (Viagra).<\/p>\n
The man was granted conditional bail to appear in Belmont Local Court on 25 March 2015.<\/p>\n
The investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have charged a man in relation to the theft of 300kg of copper wire from a coal mine in the Lake Macquarie region. Officers stopped a white Nissan Pulsar in the Warners Bay area about 4pm on Monday (2 March 2015). During a search of the car, police seized three 100kg spools of 10mm … Continue reading “Man charged over copper theft – Lake Macquarie LAC”<\/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-1795","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\/1795","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=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}