A MAN, 18, accused of using a firearm to threaten four people during a break-in at Wallsend on Sunday night has been granted conditional bail to enter an alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre.
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Kade Priestly appeared in Newcastle Local Court on Monday charged with specially aggravated break and enter and commit serious indictable offence and assault occasioning actual bodily harm after the 18-year-old and Aaron James Wilson, 20, allegedly went to a home in Chalmers Road, Wallsend about 11.30pm.
The pair argued with the occupants before Mr Priestly allegedly struck a man, 34, with a plastic pipe and then pulled out a firearm.
The two men fled on foot but were arrested a short time later.
Priestly was granted bail on Monday to immediately enter rehab, while Wilson had his application for bail denied.