Police have charged a man with intimidation after a 16-year-old girl was allegedly approached and chased in Newcastle West this morning.<\/p>\n
The teenager told police she was on Wood Street, Newcastle, about 8.20am today (Tuesday 9 August 2016), when she noticed a man walking towards her.<\/p>\n
Police will allege the girl crossed the road but was followed and then chased.<\/p>\n
A number of onlookers intervened and police arrived a short time later.<\/p>\n
A 42-year-old man was arrested at the scene and taken to Newcastle Police Station.<\/p>\n
He was charged with stalk\/intimidate and refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court tomorrow (Wednesday 10 August 2016).<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, police are investigating the alleged approach of two women by a man between 7am and 7.30am at Islington Park this morning.<\/p>\n
They ask anyone with information about those incidents to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have charged a man with intimidation after a 16-year-old girl was allegedly approached and chased in Newcastle West this morning. The teenager told police she was on Wood Street, Newcastle, about 8.20am today (Tuesday 9 August 2016), when she noticed a man walking towards her. Police will allege the girl crossed the road but … Continue reading “Man charged after teenager approached – Newcastle West”<\/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-4275","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\/4275","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=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}