Four men have been charged by NSW Police and will face court after an alleged home invasion and child abduction in the NSW Upper Hunter last month.<\/p>\n
NSW Police said on June 6 a group of men allegedly forced entry to a home on Richmond Street, Muswellbrook, in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n
Officers were told a male occupant confronted the men and was allegedly assaulted and hit over the head with a bottle.<\/p>\n
It is alleged that two children, aged four and seven, were then taken from the home.<\/p>\n
“A 36-year-old man was arrested by police a short time later, following a foot pursuit,” a NSW Police spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“The two children were also recovered by police a short distance away from the house.”<\/p>\n
The injured occupant was treated at Muswellbrook hospital for facial injuries and a concussion.<\/p>\n
The arrested man was charged at Muswellbrook Police station with special aggravated break and enter, and commit serious indictable offence \u2014 wounding.<\/p>\n
He has been refused bail in court, and is due to reappear in August.<\/p>\n
Strike force arrests<\/p>\n
Officers with the Hunter Valley Police District formed Strike Force Tope to investigate the incident further.<\/p>\n
On Friday, July 17, a 33-year-old man was arrested at Mount Street in Scone.<\/p>\n
“He was taken to Muswellbrook Police Station and charged with special aggravated break and enter and commit serious indictable offence \u2013 wounding, and take\/detain child with intent to remove from parental control \u2014 DV,” the spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Later that afternoon, officers arrested two more men, aged 23 and 27, at Muswellbrook Police Station.<\/p>\n
“The 23-year-old man was charged with two offences: special aggravated break and enter and commit serious indictable offence \u2014 wounding, and take\/detain child with intent to remove from parental control \u2014 DV,” the spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“The 27-year-old man was charged with three offences: charged with special aggravated break and enter and commit serious indictable offence \u2014 wounding, and take\/detain child with intent to remove from parental control \u2014 DV and contravene prohibition\/restriction in AVO (domestic).”<\/p>\n
The three men did not apply for bail in court on Saturday, and it was formally refused.<\/p>\n
They will re-appear in court in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four men have been charged by NSW Police and will face court after an alleged home invasion and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,22,21,44256,8188,8913,29539,2021,44258,44257,29540],"class_list":["post-53502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arrests","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-child-abduction","tag-home-invasion","tag-hunter-valley","tag-muswellbrook","tag-nsw-police","tag-scone","tag-strike-force-tope","tag-upper-hunter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}