CANBERRA, ACT, Oct. 28 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
A Lithgow man is expected to face aNSWcourttoday (28 October, 2026), chargedwithusing social media to allegedlythreaten a federalparliamentarian and drug possession.
The AFP's National Security Investigations (NSI) team began an investigation in September, 2026, after receiving a report of an alleged online threat made towards the federal parliamentarian.
NSI investigators executed a search warrant at a Lithgow home yesterday (27 October, 2026), where investigators seized a mobile phone, about 1 gram of a white crystalline substanceallegedto be a border-controlled drug, and drug paraphernalia.
The man, 39, was arrested andcharged with:
* One count ...