Police are investigating after a man in a wheelchair was injured during a home invasion near Albury yesterday.<\/p>\n
Police were told, about 7.15pm (Tuesday 16 August 2016), two people attended a home on Kottoff Street, Lavington, and assaulted a 38-year-old male resident after he answered the door.<\/p>\n
The pair demanded cash, jewellery and drugs before they began to rummage through the house.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old male resident punched one of intruders, but was pushed to the ground, out of his wheelchair.<\/p>\n
The two people then left the premises after taking cash and electronic items from the house.<\/p>\n
Police from Albury Local Area Command attended the scene and established a crime scene.<\/p>\n
Investigators would like to speak with two people who may be able to assist with inquiries.<\/p>\n
One is described as being male and of Caucasian appearance, with short brown hair and had his face covered. He was last seen wearing dark clothing at the time.<\/p>\n
The second person is described as being possibly female and of Caucasian appearance with long light brown hair in a pony tail and also had their face covered. They were last seen wearing dark clothing as well.<\/p>\n
The resident sustained a minor injury to hand and grazing during the incident.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact Albury Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are investigating after a man in a wheelchair was injured during a home invasion near Albury yesterday. Police were told, about 7.15pm (Tuesday 16 August 2016), two people attended a home on Kottoff Street, Lavington, and assaulted a 38-year-old male resident after he answered the door. The pair demanded cash, jewellery and drugs before … Continue reading “Police investigate home invasion near Albury”<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","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=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}