Police are appealing for information after a 73-year-old woman and her friend were robbed in Lambton last night.<\/p>\n
About 6pm (Saturday 30 July 2016), the woman and her friend arrived at a home on Armstrong Street and commenced to unpack the boot of a vehicle.<\/p>\n
The pair entered a unit and a short time later, an unknown man appeared at the premises, before threatening the pair and demanding their handbags.<\/p>\n
The man fled the scene, taking two handbags. The women were uninjured.<\/p>\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Local Area Command were called and established a crime scene.<\/p>\n
As inquiries into the incident continue, police would like to speak to a man who may be able to assist them.<\/p>\n
He is described as being of Aboriginal\/Torres Strait Islander appearance, about 30-years-old, of medium build, and was seen wearing a beanie.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to come forward and contact local police via Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for information after a 73-year-old woman and her friend were robbed in Lambton last night. About 6pm (Saturday 30 July 2016), the woman and her friend arrived at a home on Armstrong Street and commenced to unpack the boot of a vehicle. The pair entered a unit and a short time later, … Continue reading “Police appeal for information following robbery – Lambton”<\/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-4231","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\/4231","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=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}