The Australian newspaper is reporting this morning that –
“A SYDNEY man is expected to appear in court today on charges over white powder scares at three embassies and a federal government building in Canberra.
Members of ACT Policing’s Territory Investigations Group arrested the 35-year-old man yesterday at a Bondi Beach house where they seized documentation and computer hard drive material.
Police will allege that between December 21 and December 27 last year the man sent four packages from Sydney, three of which were discovered at the Israeli Embassy, the United States Embassy and the British High Commission on January 2 in Canberra.
A SYDNEY man is expected to appear in court today on charges over white powder scares at three embassies and a federal government building in Canberra.
Members of ACT Policing’s Territory Investigations Group arrested the 35-year-old man yesterday at a Bondi Beach house where they seized documentation and computer hard drive material.
Police will allege that between December 21 and December 27 last year the man sent four packages from Sydney, three of which were discovered at the Israeli Embassy, the United States Embassy and the British High Commission on January 2 in Canberra.
The fourth suspicious package was located by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade staff in their Barton offices in Canberra on January 3.
Police and the ACT Fire Brigade determined the substances were harmless.
The man was charged with four counts of inducing persons to believe a hoax package contained a dangerous substance or explosive and one count of using a postal service in a way regarded as being menacing.
The man is due in Sydney Central Local Court today.”
(Bondi? I wonder if he’s a Kiwi?)
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