A teenager will face court today after an alleged assault in the state's central west earlier this year.
About 8.30am yesterday (Monday 20 April 2026), officers attached to Central West Police District were informed of an assault alleged to have occurred in late January this year.
Officers were told a 14-year-old boy had allegedly kicked and sprayed a man – aged in his 60s – with a fire extinguisher containing an unknown liquid at a railway building on May Street, Parkes on the afternoon of Friday 30 January 2026.
Police will allege the boy forced entry into a locked room at a train station building on the same street from about 5pm the same day – damaging the room and leaving graffiti – and leading a group of other unknown people into the area, before stealing several fluorescent lighting tubes.
The boy then allegedly threw the tubes towards a young female and onto train tracks before he ran from the scene.
Following extensive inquiries, about 9.15pm yesterday (Monday 20 April 2026), police attended a home on Clarinda Street, Parkes, where they arrested a 14-year-old boy.
He was taken to Parkes Police Station where he was charged with break and enter house etc destroy etc property less than or equal to $60,000, common assault (two counts), stalk/intimidate intend fear physical etc harm (personal), and destroy or damage property.
The boy was refused bail to face a children's court today (Tuesday 21 April 2026).
Inquiries continue.
