A man has been charged over an alleged aggravated break and enter in Newcastle at the weekend.
Police said an 84-year-old woman was asleep at a home on Marsden Street, Shortland, when she was woken by an unknown man standing in her room about 3am on Sunday.
The man allegedly spoke to the elderly woman before she called to family members for help - at which time the man left the home.
The woman was not injured.
The family reported the incident to police later that morning and an investigation began.
Police attended a separate home on Marsden Street and arrested a 19-year-old man on Wednesday.
He was taken to Waratah Police Station and charged with aggravated break and enter commit serious indictable offence with people there.
He was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court on Thursday, where he was formally bail refused to reappear at the same court on Friday.
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