Police have charged two men over an alleged violent break and enter at Wallsend on Sunday night.
The incident took place at around 11:30pm at a home on Chalmers Road, where four people, three men and a woman were inside.
Police say two men aged 18 and 20 arrived and entered through the front door, before a verbal altercation occurred and the situation became physical. The younger man allegedly struck a 34-year-old man with a plastic pipe several times.
It will be further alleged the 18-year-old brandished a firearm and threatened the four occupants, before the pair fled the scene on foot.
The 34-year-old suffered lacerations to his head, which were treated at the John Hunter Hospital.
Newcastle City Police attended the scene and established a crime scene.
A short time later police arrested the two men, the 20-year-old at William Street, Jesmond and the 18-year-old at Victory Parade.
Both men were taken to Waratah Police Station and charged with special aggravated break and enter commit serious indictable offence-weapon, possess or use a prohibited weapon without permit, assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company of others and common assault.
The pair were refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court on Monday.
