Blacktown police news: Blacktown man charged over alleged $130k fraud
A man has been charged after allegedly defrauding a company of $130,000. Meanwhile, police have nabbed two men allegedly breaking into cars in Blacktown this month.
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BLACKTOWN
A Blacktown man will face court after allegedly defrauding a company of $130,000.
Police allege the 21-year-old hacked into the email system of a Queensland-based company early this year and sent an email posing as a legitimate contractor.
It’s alleged this email directed the company to pay $130,000 for work the contractor claimed to have undertaken.
The company paid this money into the bank account of the alleged offender.
Blacktown police were alerted and charged the man with dealing with the proceeds of crime. He is due to face Central Local Court on September 5.
The money is yet to be recovered.
SEVEN HILLS
Police have charged a man after he was allegedly caught spraying graffiti on the rail tracks at Seven Hills station this month.
Police allege the Redfern man, 18, jumped the station fence and entered the tracks at about 1.45pm on Monday, August 12, before spray painting a wall.
Trains using the Western Line were stopped for 10 minutes while police arrested the man.
He was searched and allegedly found with 10 cans of spray paint.
He was charged with four graffiti-related offences and will face court at a later date.
BLACKTOWN
A man has been charged after allegedly indecently touching himself in front of a woman on a Blacktown train earlier this year.
Police said the incident occurred on June 17, shortly after a woman, 25, boarded a train at Blacktown station.
It is alleged she witnessed the man standing near her perform an indecent act.
The woman reported the incident to police when she arrived at Central station.
Officers from the Police Transport Command Central arrested the man, 36, at Day Street Police Station last week.
He was charged with offensive conduct and wilful and obscene exposure and refused bail to appear at Central Local Court at a later date.
MT DRUITT
A man has been charged after allegedly stealing mobile phones from staff at Mt Druitt Hospital.
Police allege the man, 27, attended the hospital just after 1.10pm on Sunday, August 18, when he allegedly ran off with several phones.
He was confronted by a staff member and followed by security guards to a fast-food outlet nearby on Luxford Rd.
Here it’s alleged the man attacked security inside the bathroom, punching them several times and forcing one into a door.
Security managed to detain the man before police arrived.
He was taken to Mt Druitt Police Station and charged with larceny, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault and having goods in custody believed to be stolen.
He will face court at a later date.
BLACKTOWN
Two men have been arrested after allegedly breaking into cars in Blacktown this month.
Police were patrolling a carpark on Colo Ln at about 5.30pm on Thursday, August 15, when they saw two men arguing with a member of the public who claimed he had seen the men looking into cars.
A short time later, a second member of the public approached police and advised her car had been broken into.
The two men, 25 and 33, from Whalan, were searched and allegedly found with the property that had been reported as stolen.
Further property was uncovered from a second vehicle the men allegedly broke into.
Police allege the 33-year-old was found with car-breaking implements.
The men were charged with a string of offences, including unlawful vehicle entry, stealing and malicious damage.
Both men were refused bail to appear at Blacktown Local Court this month.