<\/b>Police have charged two men following a police pursuit at Newcastle overnight.<\/p>\n
About 1.40am today (Tuesday 12 May 2015), an off duty police officer observed suspicious behaviour by two men who were approaching unattended cars in a car park at New Lambton.<\/p>\n
A short time later police from Newcastle City Local Area Command attended and observed two men in a stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n
The officers drove towards the stolen car and activated their warning lights and sirens but the men\u2019s vehicle mounted the footpath and drove away.<\/p>\n
As the stolen vehicle entered the confines of the nearby Harker Oval a police pursuit commenced.<\/p>\n
The officers were able to follow and observe the stolen car from a road that adjoins the oval which is surrounded by cyclone fencing.<\/p>\n
The driver of the stolen car attempted to ram the fence in order to escape but the vehicle became trapped.<\/p>\n
Both men were arrested without incident and conveyed to Waratah Police Station.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old driver from Summerland Point was charged with Skyes Law (pursuit), suspended driver, drive conveyance without consent of owner and outstanding warrants.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old from Belmont was charged with being carried in a conveyance and an outstanding warrant.<\/p>\n
Both men were refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have charged two men following a police pursuit at Newcastle overnight. About 1.40am today (Tuesday 12 May 2015), an off duty police officer observed suspicious behaviour by two men who were approaching unattended cars in a car park at New Lambton. A short time later police from Newcastle City Local Area Command attended and … Continue reading “Police charge men over pursuit – 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-2162","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\/2162","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=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}