Street Watch: Man charged over aggravated break-in at Liverpool restaurant A TAXI driver was violently assaulted and had his vehicle damaged / Picture: Bill Hearne Source: News Limited A MAN has been charged overnight with the aggravated break and enter of a Liverpool restaurant. The 36-year-old broke into the back of a restaurant on Bathurst St on the afternoon of December 7 and threatened staff with a knife before fleeing with a wallet and bag. He was arrested yesterday after police searched a house in Woolnough Pl, Cartwright. He was refused bail and will appear at Liverpool Local Court today. Police hold concerns for a woman who has been missing in the Blue Mountains since Wednesday. Diane Newman, 42, was last seen on Wednesday as she drove along Grose Rd, Faulconbridge. A friend raised the alarm when Ms Newman didn't make it home that night and Police say they hold concerns for her welfare. Ms Newman is described as fair skinned, around 155cm tall, a slim build with green eyes and red hair and is believed to be travelling in a green/grey Mitsubishi Mirage with the numberplates ABF 335. She may be heading towards the Central Coast. A TAXI driver was assaulted and his cab damaged by a lone male passenger on Bronte Rd about 1am on Wednesday. The offender fled the scene before police arrived. The driver was treated for minor injuries before being taken to Prince of Wales Hospital. Another taxi driver who came to take the cab away said the victim wasn't robbed. TWO men armed with short-barrelled firearms and one with a knife threatened staff and demanded cash at Ryedales Tavern on West Pde about 11pm on Wednesday. The thieves then fled in a white sedan driven by a fourth man and were last seen on Anthony Lane. FOUR men have been arrested for alleged drug supply, following raids across Sydney on Wednesday. After four months of investigating, police made the arrests at properties in Mascot, Kogarah, Rockdale and Marrickville. They were refused bail and the matter is before the courts. A REAL estate agent discovered a single bullet hole in a window of a rental home - which the residents knew nothing about. The agent was doing a routine unit inspection on Wisemans Ave, North Wollongong when he discovered a hole in a lounge room window on Wednesday. Police forensic officers discovered bullet fragments. They said the incident is believed to be a random attack between November 25 and Wednesday. A TEENAGE boy was left with a broken leg in a hit and run in the Lake Macquarie area. The 17-year-old was crossing an intersection at Main Rd, Toukley when he was hit by a dark-coloured Holden Commodore with green P-plates about 9.20pm on Wednesday. Police said the car left the scene moments after the incident. The teen was rushed to John Hunter Hospital with a fractured leg. A TEENAGER allegedly used a wheel brace to assault another driver during a road rage incident on the Central Coast. Police said that a 30-year-old man had become involved in an argument through his car window with a 17-year-old male driver on Racecourse Rd, West Gosford about 8.15am on Wednesday. The teen then got out of his car, holding a wheel brace, at a nearby intersection on the Central Coast Hwy and confronted the other driver, who had also left his vehicle. A police spokesman said the older driver thought the teen was going to damage his car but was allegedly struck by the wheel brace, suffering cuts to his head and arm. The injured man was rushed to Gosford Hospital. Police searched the area and a short time later arrested the teenager. He was charged with reckless wounding and affray and granted conditional bail to appear at the children's court on January 17. A HOUSE was gutted by a fire which took emergency services more than an hour to extinguish in the Blue Mountains yesterday morning. Five fire trucks rushed to Blaxland Ridge Rd to find the single storey timber building completely engulfed in flames about 8.45am. A Rural Fire Service spokesman said no one was inside the home at the time of the blaze and it took fire fighters about an hour to put it out. Investigators were yet to establish what caused the fire. Street Watch - December 12