Carjacking accused remanded in custody

November 24, 2014 | By More

Court House-Sept-2013-07Bail was not sought for a man charged with an alleged Edgeware Road carjacking at the weekend.

Kevin John Rewa, a 53-year-old Edgeware resident, was remanded without plea for an appearance by video-link from the prison December 8 on a charge of robbing a man of a car while armed with a knife.

Police allege the robbery occurred on Saturday morning, and they made an arrest after the Armed Offenders Squad surrounded a man in the carpark of the Waiau Lodge Hotel in Waiau about 1pm.

Duty lawyer Michael Knowles told Judge David Saunders that bail could be considered after Rewa was a assigned a lawyer.

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