Kidnap, extortion among 55 charges, NSW

A man has been charged with 55 offences after St Marys police investigated multiple allegations of kidnap, extortion and drug-related offences, NSW Police say.

Detectives from St Marys Local Area Command formed Strike Force Atone in January 2017 to investigate dozens of alleged offences in Sydney’s north-west.

As a consequences of on-going inquiries, detectives yesterday, arrested a 36-year-old man at Silverwater.

He was he was charged with 55 offences including:

  • Kidnap in company with intent to commit serious indictable occasion actual bodily harm
  • Take/detain in company w/i to ransom occasion actual bodily harm (two counts)
  • Demand property with menaces
  • Demand property with menaces with intent to steal (two counts)
  • Assault occasioning actual bodily harm
  • Assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company of other(s) (two counts)
  • Choke etc person intend to commit etc indictable offence (two counts)
  • Robbery armed with an offensive weapon
  • Common assault (two counts)
  • Intentionally choke etc person with recklessness
  • Break & enter intend to commit serious indictable offence
  • Destroy or damage property
  • Stalk/intimidate intend fear physical etc harm (three counts)
  • Demand property by force in company with intent to steal
  • Aggravated break and enter and commit serious indictable offence-people there
  • Aggravated break and enter with intent -in company-steal etc >$60K
  • Steal motor vehicle
  • Dispose motor vehicle part-theft=serious indictable offence > $5000
  • Drive while disqualified

The man was refused bail to appear in Penrith Local Court today.

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