A man has been charged over threatening messages sent via a social media platform.
Officers from the Counter Terrorism & Special Tactics Command Security Investigation Unit commenced an investigation into threatening messages after being contacted by South Australian Police.
It will be alleged that a 34-year-old man from Liverpool sent a total of four messages via a social media platform between Thursday 6 June 2024 and Wednesday 19 June 2024 to a 41-year-old man living in Adelaide.
Both men are known to one another with the older man being a religious elder in South Australia.
About 5pm yesterday (Tuesday 2 July 2024), officers arrested the 34-year-old at the Sydney Domestic Terminal.
He was taken to Surry Hills Police Station and charged with two counts of use carriage service to menace/harass/offend and two counts of use carriage service to threaten to kill.
The man was refused bail to appear at the Downing Centre Local Court today (Wednesday 3 July 2024) where he was remanded in custody to reappear at the same court tomorrow (Thursday 4 July 2024).
