Police are appealing for information after two armed robberies occurred at Newcastle today.<\/p>\n
About 11.30am (Sunday 3 April 2016), a man walked into a business on Belford Street, Broadmeadow, and allegedly threatened a 41-year-old male employee with a knife, demanding money.<\/p>\n
The employee complied and ran away. The man left the store shortly afterwards with a sum of cash.<\/p>\n
About 12.30pm (Sunday 3 April 2016), a man entered a convenience store on Wharf Road, Newcastle. The man allegedly threatened a 23-year-old male worker and demanded money.<\/p>\n
A sum of cash was handed to the man and he left the store, running north towards Hunter Street.<\/p>\n
Police from Newcastle City Local Area Command were called to both incidents and commenced investigations.<\/p>\n
No one was injured in either of the robberies.<\/p>\n
Detectives suspect both incidents are linked and would like to speak to a man who may be able to assist with their inquiries.<\/p>\n
The man is described as being of Caucasian appearance, in his early to mid 50s, about 175-180cm tall with a solid build.<\/p>\n
In the first incident, the man was seen wearing a white t-shirt and black glasses.<\/p>\n
In the second incident, the man was seen wearing sunglasses, a black t-shirt and cream shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for information after two armed robberies occurred at Newcastle today. About 11.30am (Sunday 3 April 2016), a man walked into a business on Belford Street, Broadmeadow, and allegedly threatened a 41-year-old male employee with a knife, demanding money. The employee complied and ran away. The man left the store shortly afterwards with … Continue reading “Police appeal following two alleged armed robberies – 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-3729","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\/3729","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=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}