Police are investigating a report that a man was threatened with a rifle during an attempted stock theft in the State\u2019s Riverina last week.<\/p>\n
A man was driving in the Bidgeemia area \u2013 100km south west of Wagga Wagga \u2013 about 7.15am last Friday (19 August 2016), when he saw a truck backed up against a fence.<\/p>\n
The man stopped to investigate and saw three men attempting to load sheep into the truck. As he went closer, he was threatened by a man armed with a rifle and he moved away.<\/p>\n
The would-be stock thieves left empty-handed and, despite the threat, the man followed the truck as it was driven towards Urana before he was again threatened by one of the men armed with a rifle.<\/p>\n
The man reported the incident to police and an investigation was initiated by the Wagga Wagga Rural Crime Investigator (RCI) .<\/p>\n
The RCI is now appealing for anyone with information about the truck, or the men involved, to contact police at Wagga Wagga.<\/p>\n
The truck was described as being a white stock carrier; at the time it was seen it had no front or rear registration plates.<\/p>\n
The men were described being either of Mediterranean\/Middle Eastern or Asian in appearance, all aged between 25 and 40, with dark complexions, long, black shoulder-length hair and long full beards.<\/p>\n
Officers warn against anyone approaching the truck or occupants if found, and instead to alert police immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are investigating a report that a man was threatened with a rifle during an attempted stock theft in the State\u2019s Riverina last week. A man was driving in the Bidgeemia area \u2013 100km south west of Wagga Wagga \u2013 about 7.15am last Friday (19 August 2016), when he saw a truck backed up against … Continue reading “Would-be stock thieves threaten man with rifle south-west of Wagga Wagga”<\/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-4347","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\/4347","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=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}