<\/b>Police are appealing for public assistance following an armed robbery near Maitland overnight.<\/p>\n
About 8pm (Sunday 10 May 2015), a man entered a hotel via Young Street, Heddon Greta, and threatened the manager with a firearm.<\/p>\n
The man fled the location with cash a short time later.<\/p>\n
Witnesses saw the man getting into a vehicle that was parked on Young Street, near the intersection of Trenchard Street.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was last seen heading north toward Cliftleigh.<\/p>\n
No one was injured during the incident.<\/p>\n
Officers attached to Central Hunter Local Area Command were contacted and launched an investigation.<\/p>\n
A crime scene was established at the location and examined by detectives.<\/p>\n
Inquiries into the matter are continuing and police would now like to speak with a man who may be able to assist in the investigation.<\/p>\n
The man is described as being of Caucasian appearance, aged in his early 20s, about 178cm tall, with dark-coloured eyes and of a skinny build.<\/p>\n
He was last seen wearing a dark-coloured hooded-jumper, long dark pants, tan-coloured garden style gloves and a white bandana across his face.<\/p>\n
Anyone who knows the man\u2019s identity, or has any information that could assist police, is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance following an armed robbery near Maitland overnight. About 8pm (Sunday 10 May 2015), a man entered a hotel via Young Street, Heddon Greta, and threatened the manager with a firearm. The man fled the location with cash a short time later. Witnesses saw the man getting into a vehicle … Continue reading “Police appeal for information after armed robbery near Maitland”<\/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-2157","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\/2157","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=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}