Jessie Dmitriev charged with domestic violence offences

A tradie who was on bail over multiple domestic violence charges, including choking, has been charged again after a woman called police claiming she was being held hostage.

A southwest Sydney tradie who allegedly yanked a woman into his car by her neck as she tried to flee while police engaged in a manhunt across several suburbs was already on bail over multiple domestic violence allegations..

Campbelltown police officers launched a major manhunt to track down Llandilo fencer Jessie Dmitriev, 26, after a woman called them alleging she was being held against her will by a man with a firearm on Wednesday evening.

“Police established a co-ordinated response involving officers from Campbelltown City and Camden police, Traffic and Highway Patrol, Dog Unit, Public Order Riot Squad and Tactical Operations Unit, to locate the man and woman, who drove to various locations including Kearns, Raby and Catherine Fields,” a NSW Police spokeswoman said in a statement.

“About 8.45pm, police found the woman and man on Badgally Rd, Claymore.”

In a document of allegations tendered to Campbelltown Local Court in a bail application, police claim Dmitriev “pulled the woman back into a car” when she tried to leave, leaving her “suffering pain, red marks, and minor scratches to both sides of her neck”.

He has now been charged with assault causing actual bodily harm, common assault, and contravening an apprehended domestic violence order, with police ultimately saying no firearm was located.

Jessie Dmitriev, 26, has been charged with domestic violence offences after a woman called police alleging she was being held hostage near Campbelltown in August 2024.

The court heard Dmitriev was already on bail for three charges of assault causing actual bodily harm, choking, common assault and intimidation, which he will fight at a hearing in November.

During Dmitriev’s bail application, the court also heard he had served a prison term for firing a firearm in a manner likely to harm someone, and an intensive correction order for affray.

Dmitriev’s solicitor from the Aboriginal Legal Service said his client would deny the fresh allegations and could stay with his sister under a strict curfew if granted bail, submitting there were alternatives to full time imprisonment even if he was found guilty.

But Magistrate Sharon Holdsworth said she could not find Dmitriev’s detention was not justified and refused his bail.

“If he’s found guilty, already being subject to an intensive correction order for affray and a conditional release order for breaching an apprehended violence order, he faces what I would determine to be a lengthy period of imprisonment,” Ms Holdsworth said.

“It can’t go unnoticed that the matter he was subject to parole for was firing a firearm in a manner likely to injure a person – I would classify that as a significant offence of violence.”

Dmitriev’s bail on his earlier matters was also revoked and his new matter was adjourned to August 27 for pleas to be entered.

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