A man has been charged after allegedly threatening staff with a syringe while attempting to shoplift in Port Stephens yesterday.<\/p>\n
Just before 7.30pm (Saturday 2 April 2016), a man attempted to leave a supermarket on Peppertree Road at Medowie with groceries that allegedly had not been paid for.<\/p>\n
When staff members confronted the man, it\u2019s alleged he threatened them with a syringe.<\/p>\n
He left the store with the items; however, members of the public chased and detained the man while police were alerted.<\/p>\n
Officers from Port Stephens Local Area Command attended and arrested the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n
He was taken to Raymond Terrace Police Station where he was charged with six counts of common assault, and attempted shoplifting \/ use weapon to avoid detention.<\/p>\n
The Kuruah man was bail refused to appear at Maitland Bail Court today (Sunday 3 April 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged after allegedly threatening staff with a syringe while attempting to shoplift in Port Stephens yesterday. Just before 7.30pm (Saturday 2 April 2016), a man attempted to leave a supermarket on Peppertree Road at Medowie with groceries that allegedly had not been paid for. When staff members confronted the man, it\u2019s … Continue reading “Staff threatened with syringe during attempted shoplift – Port Stephens”<\/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-3727","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\/3727","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=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}