Operation Amarok: List of charges facing alleged domestic violence offenders
From punishing a young boy by spraying him with a high-pressure hose to stalking and choking their victims, these are some of the alleged crimes of more than 500 people arrested by NSW Police in a four-day domestic violence blitz.
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From punishing a young boy by spraying him with a high-pressure hose to stalking and choking their victims, these are some of the alleged crimes of more than 500 people arrested by NSW Police in a four-day domestic violence blitz.
The arrests come amid soaring domestic violence cases and off the back of the Saturday Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph launching our Evil In The Home campaign to bring abusive partners, husbands, wives and family members to justice.
A man using a high pressured-hose spray to punish a young boy became the target of St George police on Thursday.
After officers were denied entry to the property and another man refused to allow police to investigate further, entry was forced into the location.
The 19-year-old man was arrested and taken to St George Police Station, where he was charged with DV common assault and Hinder Police officer in execution of duty.
A man snuck into the roof cavity when police came knocking on the mid-north coast.
Officers were conducting inquiries at a unit block at Kempsey on Friday when they received information that a man wanted for DV offences was at the location.
After a resident told police the man was not there, they were granted access to the unit and discovered the man had crawled into the roof cavity and onto the roof. Police commenced negotiations after the man refused to come down and requested additional resources.
Just after 9.30pm, the man climbed down from the roof and was arrested. He was taken to Kempsey Police Station and charged with the outstanding warrants.
A man was subdued with capsicum spray after allegedly assaulting police trying to arrest him after a domestic related incident in Tionee in the Manning-Great Lakes Police District.
Checks revealed the man held a firearms licence and had two registered firearms, but officers will allege they found the safe open and the firearms missing.
Four firearms were later located on the grounds of the property and seized.
The 40-year-old man was charged with stalk/intimidate with intent to cause fear and physical harm, assaulting a police officer in execution of duty causing actual bodily harm, hinder or resist police officer in the execution of duty and firearm offences.
A 42-year-old man became the target of the South West Metropolitan Region’s Domestic Violence High Risk Offender Team - they considered him a priority target, wanted on outstanding warrants.
About 7am on Wednesday the team arrested the man at a his workplace.
He was charged with the outstanding warrant for domestic violence offences, as well as intentionally choking a person without consent, stalk/intimidate intending to cause fear of physical harm and common assault (DV).
Officers from Monaro Region Enforcement Squad attended a home at Karabar to conduct a Firearm Prohibition order search.
After no one answered the calls of the heavy armed team at the front door, the squad members forced entry and allegedly located the subject of the order inside, with a woman and child.
During the search, officers allegedly seized a commercially manufactured slingshot, testosterone, cannabis and gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid.
The 41-year-old man was issued a Court Attendance Notice.
In Wagga Wagga, officers from Traffic and Highway Patrol Command were conducting proactive patrols as part of Operation Amarok when they saw a wanted man driving a vehicle with unauthorised registration plates.
When the driver failed to stop a police pursuit commenced.
The male driver fled the vehicle on foot with police giving chase, arresting him a short distance away.
It will be alleged in court that the man spat at police during the arrest.
During a subsequent search of the vehicle police located a large knife.
The 18-year-old was subsequently charged with a range of offences including recklessly driving, having custody of knife in public place, assaulting police.
The North West Metropolitan Domestic Violence High Risk Offender Team identified a 20-year-old man with outstanding warrants as a priority target and commenced inquiries to locate him.
Those inquiries led them to a hotel at Redfern where they arrested the man and charged him with stalk/intimidate, intend fear physical etc harm (domestic), fail to appear in accordance with bail acknowledgment, and commit an act of cruelty upon an animal.
A man standing in a front yard in Airds had his day interrupted by the South West Metropolitan Domestic Violence High Risk Offender Team when they nabbed him for allegedly breaching an AVO.
The 46-year-old man was a “priority target” of Operation Amarok.
He was taken to Campbelltown Police Station, where he was charged with ten counts of contravene prohibition/restriction in AVO (Domestic), destroy or damage property (DV), two counts of stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm (personal), and threaten to distribute intimate image without consent.
Following recent reports of domestic violence, officers from Hawkesbury Proactive Crime Team attended a home at South Windsor on Thursday and served an Firearm Prohibition Order on a 42-year-old man.
During a search of the property, police allegedly located a loaded bolt action .22 calibre rifle fitted with a suppressor under a kick board in the kitchen, a homemade pistol in a bedroom and various types of ammunition.
The man was arrested and charged with multiple firearm offences.
Police searched a unit at Bondi Beach and seized a replica antique pistol and cannabis. The subject of the Firearm Prevention order, a 40-year-old man, was arrested and charged with multiple offences.
In the Hunter Valley police following up on order relating to a 49-year-old man searched a home and found a rifle round, cocaine, drug paraphernalia, two phones, testosterone cypionate and a corn snake.
The snake, which is deemed an exotic animal, was taken into the car by the Department of Primary Industries.
The man was arrested and taken to Cessnock Police Station, where he was charged with two counts of possess prohibited drug, possess prescribed restricted substance, possess ammunition without licence, deal in or attempt to deal in protected animal and breach of bail.
In Seven Hills police launched an investigation into reports of a domestic violence-related incident between two women.
When officers could not locate the younger woman, they sought help from the North Domestic Violence High Risk Offender Team. As part of Amarok taskings, the officers were conducting inquiries at Bidwill about 2.20pm on Thursday where they arrested the 29-year-old woman. She was charged with stalking offences and assault.
A Lake Illawarra man was locked up after allegedly running from police investigating breaches of an AVO.
He was seen fleeing the home and jumping over the back fence. Police gave chase on foot and arrested the man a short distance away.
The 33-year-old man was subsequently charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, stalking and multiple domestic violence offences.
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