COVID-19: man charged with sailing from Victoria to Cronulla
A man has been tasered and charged with defying COVID-19 public health orders after police allege he travelled in his boat from Victoria to Sydney’s Sutherland Shire.
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A man who allegedly travelled to the Shire on a boat from Victoria has been tasered and charged with defying COVID-19 public health orders.
Officers from the Marine Area Command attempted to communicate with a 61-year-old man on a vessel east of Cronulla, as they had reason to believe the boat had travelled from Victoria.
Police say the man refused to disembark and became aggressive towards officers before he allegedly produced a knife.
Specialist officers attended a short time later and boarded the vessel, where the man was tasered and arrested.
After he was treated at Sutherland Hospital police took him to Sutherland police station and charged him with not complying with COVID-19 directions.
He was granted bail to face Sutherland Local Court on September 10.