{"id":786267,"date":"2026-07-08T05:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786267\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:08:16","slug":"hobart-lawyer-damien-geason-arrested-at-his-office-charged-with-assault-and-fvo-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786267\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobart lawyer Damien Geason arrested at his office, charged with assault and FVO breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Hobart lawyer Damien Geason has been arrested at his office and charged with eight offences including assault and multiple breaches of a family violence order.<\/p>\n<p>The Butler McIntyre &amp; Butler lawyer was arrested at his Hobart office yesterday and was walked out by several officers in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the 54-year-old was this morning charged with one count of criminal code assault, six counts of breaching a family violence order and one count of common assault.<\/p>\n<p>He fronted the Hobart Hobart Magistrates Court this morning.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"69927\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/37ad0df1-5wy8hzy5a8z4e7n_combined_9drnz_u3kyn\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/37ad0df1-5wy8hzy5a8z4e7n_combined_9drnz_u3kyn.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"37ad0df1-5wy8hzy5a8z4e7n_combined_9drnz_u3kyn\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The 54-year-old lawyer was arrested at his Hobart office on Tuesday&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/37ad0df1-5wy8hzy5a8z4e7n_combined_9drnz_u3kyn-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/37ad0df1-5wy8hzy5a8z4e7n_combined_9drnz_u3kyn-1024x683.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/37ad0df1-5wy8hzy5a8z4e7n_combined_9drnz_u3kyn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>The 54-year-old lawyer was arrested at his Hobart office on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prominent Hobart lawyer Damien Geason has been arrested at his office and charged with eight offences including assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-786267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}