<\/b>Two men have been charged over an alleged attempt to rob a hotel in Lake Macquarie overnight.<\/p>\n
Three men entered the hotel on Main Road at Cardiff about 11.40pm (Tuesday 5 May 2015), allegedly armed with a knife and sledgehammer.<\/p>\n
They allegedly threatened a staff member but were unable to get cash from the safe and fled when police arrived.<\/p>\n
Two men, aged 18 and 19, were arrested a short time later by police from Lake Macquarie Local Area Command.<\/p>\n
They were taken to Toronto Police Station where they were each charged with assault with intent to rob while armed with an offensive weapon.<\/p>\n
They were refused bail to appear in Toronto Local Court today (Wednesday 6 May 2015).<\/p>\n
Police are looking for a third person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two men have been charged over an alleged attempt to rob a hotel in Lake Macquarie overnight. Three men entered the hotel on Main Road at Cardiff about 11.40pm (Tuesday 5 May 2015), allegedly armed with a knife and sledgehammer. They allegedly threatened a staff member but were unable to get cash from the safe … Continue reading “Two charged after alleged attempt to rob Cardiff hotel”<\/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-2134","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\/2134","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=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}