<\/b>Police have charged a man after a firearm was allegedly seized during a car search at Killaben Bay near Lake Macquarie today.<\/p>\n
Early this morning (Sunday 6 September 2015), a 21-year-old man and a woman attended a home on Angela Close, Carey Bay, and had an argument with a 37-year-old man at the house.<\/p>\n
The younger man and woman entered their car and allegedly drove at the older man, who allegedly threw a brick at the car, hitting the windscreen.<\/p>\n
The man and woman left the scene. A short time later, the pair returned in a Holden Commodore with two other men.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old approached the man at the house and allegedly threatened him with a firearm. The older man contacted police and the group left the area.<\/p>\n
Officers from Lake Macquarie Local Area Command located and stopped a Holden Commodore on Lakeview Street, Killaben Bay.<\/p>\n
A consequent search of the vehicle resulted in police allegedly seizing a firearm and methamphetamine (ICE) from in the car.<\/p>\n
The four occupants, three men and a woman were arrested and taken to Toronto Police Station.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old man was charged with possess unregistered, unauthorised, and prohibited firearm, possess loaded firearm in a public place, not keep firearm safely, and common assault.<\/p>\n
He was refused bail to appear at Toronto Local Court tomorrow (Monday 7 September 2015).<\/p>\n
Inquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have charged a man after a firearm was allegedly seized during a car search at Killaben Bay near Lake Macquarie today. Early this morning (Sunday 6 September 2015), a 21-year-old man and a woman attended a home on Angela Close, Carey Bay, and had an argument with a 37-year-old man at the house. The … Continue reading “Man charged after firearm allegedly located near Lake Macquarie”<\/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-2795","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\/2795","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=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}