Police are appealing for witnesses following a robbery at Newcastle this morning.<\/p>\n
About 2.20am (Thursday 14 January 2016), two men \u2013 aged 20 and 25 \u2013 were walking in a laneway between Wharf Road and Hunter Street, when a black Holden Commodore with four males inside stopped and exited the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police have been told the males confronted the 20-year-old man, before punching and kicking him.<\/p>\n
They left the scene in the vehicle, taking cash and an iPod.<\/p>\n
Following the incident, officers from Newcastle City Local Area Command and NSW Ambulance Paramedics were called.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old man was taken to John Hunter Hospital with facial injuries.<\/p>\n
Investigations into the incident are continuing and police are appealing for anyone with information about the robbery to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for witnesses following a robbery at Newcastle this morning. About 2.20am (Thursday 14 January 2016), two men \u2013 aged 20 and 25 \u2013 were walking in a laneway between Wharf Road and Hunter Street, when a black Holden Commodore with four males inside stopped and exited the vehicle. Police have been told … Continue reading “Police appeal following robbery – 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-3309","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\/3309","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=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}