A police officer will face court next month in relation to alleged domestic violence matters.

The off-duty senior constable, who is attached to the Northern Region, was charged with seven counts of use carriage service to menace, harass or offend as well as stalk or intimidate (domestic violence related).

The 42-year-old was issued with a Future Court Attendance Notice on Thursday 3 September 2015.
She will appear in Belmont Local Court on 21 October 2015.

A non-urgent apprehended violence order was also made.

A man is due to appear in court tomorrow (Friday 4 September 2015), charged after allegedly exposing himself to a teenage girl near Maitland.

A 15-year-old girl told police she was with two friends in a park, near the Belmore Bridge at Lorn, about 2.30pm on Wednesday (2 September 2015), when a man approached and exposed himself.

The girl reported the incident at Maitland Police Station and an investigation was initiated.

Following information supplied, police from Central Hunter Local Area Command arrested a man in the same park this morning (Thursday 3 September 2015).

A 34-year-old man was taken to Maitland Police Station where he was charged with commit act of indecency with person under 16 years, and wilful and obscene exposure in a public place.

He was refused bail and is due to appear in Maitland Local Court tomorrow.

Police are appealing for information following the armed hold up of a service station at Rutherford yesterday.

Just after 5am (Wednesday 2 September 2015), a young man walked into the service station on the New England Highway and approached the console attendant for cigarettes.

The 23-year-old attendant refused to sell the cigarettes when the young man failed to provide age identification.

The young man then purchased chocolates and again asked the attendant to purchase cigarettes.

When the attendant again refused, the young man produced what appeared to be a small handgun and pistol-whipped the attendant.

The young man again demanded cigarettes and picked up a hand-held EFTPOS machine from the counter and again assaulted the attendant on the side of his head.

The attendant left the counter area and went into a back office. The young man took some chocolates and a drink from the store and was last seen walking west along the New England Highway towards Fourth Avenue.

Officers from Maitland Police Station were notified of the incident and established a crime scene at the store.

Following investigations, detectives would like to speak with a young man who may be able to assist them with inquiries.

He is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 16 to 19-years-old, 170 to 180cm tall with a skinny build.

He was last seen wearing a dark blue / light blue coloured hooded jacket with the hood pulled over his head and long khaki coloured pants.

The attendant was not injured during the incident.

Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has information on the identity or whereabouts of the young man, is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Police are urging anyone with information in relation to these incidents to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.

Police are investigating the armed robbery of a supermarket in Cardiff last night.

About 7.40pm (Wednesday 2 September 2015), a man entered the store armed with a shotgun and threatened an attendant, demanding cash.

The attendant complied with the man’s demands and handed over an amount of cash before the man fled. The attendant was not injured during the incident.

The man was last seen entering the passenger side of a white four door sedan in the parking lot before fleeing. The driver of the car was not further described.

Police from Lake Macquarie Local Area Command were notified and established a crime scene.

A search was unable locate the man or car, and officers are now appealing for anyone with information about the robbery or the identity of the man to come forward.

The man is described as being about 190cm tall with a skinny build.

He was last seen wearing a long-sleeve hooded jacket, jeans, and joggers and carrying a gun described as a double-barrel sawed-off shotgun.

A woman will reappear in court next month after she was charged in relation to a crash that killed a two-year-old girl and left her 11-month-old brother with critical injuries.

About 7pm (Monday 17 August 2015), a woman was driving her sedan northbound on the New England Highway, about 4km north of Willow Tree, when the vehicle rolled, landing down an embankment off the side of the road.

A passer-by stopped and assisted, locating a two-year-old child deceased, and an 11-month-old boy suffering critical injuries.

Police from Oxley and Hunter Valley Local Area Command’s attended the scene and co-ordinated a response with the assistance of NSW Ambulance, Rural Fire Service, VRA, and Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

The infant was flown to John Hunter Hospital for further treatment and has since been transferred to Newcastle Children’s Hospital. The woman was taken to Tamworth Base Hospital and was later released.

Today (Tuesday 1 September 2015), Crash Investigators from Tamworth charged a 20–year-old woman with dangerous driving occasioning death, dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm, negligent driving occasioning death, negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm, drive whilst disqualified and drive with a passenger between 6 months and 4 years unrestrained as prescribed.

She appeared before Newcastle Local Court today where she was granted conditional bail prior to her next court appearance at Newcastle Local Court on 28 October 2015.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a girl was approached at Bar Beach, Newcastle on
the weekend.

About 10:50am (Saturday 29 August 2015), a four-year-old girl and her mother were walking on the second ramped walkway along the promenade when a man approached the child and committed a lewd act.

The mother observed the man for a short period as he approached other people with children and made contact. She immediately reported the matter to police. Police searched the area and spoke to life guards however they were unable to locate the man.

Police would like to speak to anyone who witnessed the incident or has information that may assist to contact Crime Stoppers.

The man was described as being of Caucasian appearance and aged in his late 40s or early 50s. He was wearing a white jumper, white shorts, dark joggers and a bright yellow/orange cap.

Police in the state’s Lake Macquarie region have formed a strike force to investigate the disappearance of a man.

Christopher Daunt, 27, was last seen in the North Lambton area on Sunday 29 March 2015.

Police were alerted when he failed to return to his Gateshead home and could not be located or contacted.

Serious concerns are held for his welfare as his disappearance is out of character.

Detectives from Lake Macquarie Local Area Command have formed Strike Force Retractor to investigate his disappearance, which is being treated as suspicious.

Strike force detectives have conducted extensive inquiries and are appealing for public assistance in an attempt to locate him.

Christopher is described as being of Caucasian appearance, approximately 180cm tall, with a thin build, brown hair and green eyes.

Anyone who may have seen Christopher or believes they know his whereabouts is urged to contact police.

A 28-year-old Canberra man has been charged with identity fraud, after being pulled over by police on the Hume Highway near Goulburn yesterday.

Police allege the man from Braddon, whose ACT licence was disqualified for traffic offences, presented police with a false NSW drivers licence.

It is alleged that when officers from the Southern Region Traffic & Highway Patrol Command searched his car, they found another three fake licences and a fraudulent Medicare card.

When further inquires were made into the man, it was found he had previously been pulled over by officers from the Macquarie Fields Traffic & Highway Patrol Command in July.

During that traffic stop police alleged another fraudulently licence had been presented.

Following yesterday’s traffic stop, the man was arrested and taken to Goulburn Police Station, where he was refused bail.

Records showed the man was currently disqualified from driving until July 2018 from offences allegedly committed in the ACT.

Traffic & Highway Patrol Command officers charged the man with 12 offences allegedly committed during the two traffic stops.

The offences included exceeding the speed limit by 20 kilometres per hour, five counts of document falsification, four counts of unlawfully possessing documents that resembled Australian driver licences, and two counts of driving while disqualified.

He will appear in Goulburn Local Court today.

Police are appealing for public assistance to help identify a female who was located deceased at Redhead, a suburb of Lake Macquarie yesterday.  About 2.25pm (Saturday 29 August 2015), police were called to a path off Ocean Street, Redhead, after reports a body had been found by two bush walkers.   Officers from Lake Macquarie Local Area Command attended and located the body of a female.   The circumstances surrounding the female’s death are not considered suspicious; however, police are now attempting to identify her and are appealing for public assistance.  She is described as being of Caucasian appearance, aged between 15 and 25, thin build, fair skin and bright dyed red hair.  She has a number of tattoos including; three small stars on her right hip, a love heart on her left hip and the letters K & P on either side; and an Egyptian eye on her left thigh.  Investigators are urging anyone with information about the identity of the female to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Police are investigating after a man’s body was located in water in the state’s Hunter region yesterday.

A member of the public saw a body in the Hunter River at Morpeth just after 5.30pm (Friday 28 August 2015).

Officers from Central Hunter Local Area Command attended, retrieved the body and established a crime scene.

An investigation was commenced at the location and was examined by specialist forensic officers.

The man has not been formally identified.

Inquiries are continuing into the circumstances surrounding how the man ended up in the river; however it is not believed to be suspicious.

Police are appealing for anyone with information that may assist with their investigation to contact Crime Stoppers.

A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.