CANBERRA, ACT, July 10 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
A Colyton man is expected to appear in Parramatta Local Court today (10 July 2026) charged over an alleged bomb hoax targeting a foreign embassy in Australia.
The AFP's National Security Investigations (NSI) team began an investigation in June 2026, after receiving a report from a foreign law enforcement partner of an online threat to harm a foreign embassy located in Australia.
Police linked the man, 47, to the alleged threat and executed a search warrant yesterday (9 July 2026) at a home in Colyton.
During the search warrant NSI investigators located and seized a mobile phone and approximately 2g of a white crystalline substance, suspected to be me...