A woman and a teenage boy will face court, charged with an alleged break and enter in the state's west earlier this week.
Operation Regional Mongoose is a high-visibility police operation to tackle serious property-related crime, committed predominately by young offenders.
Yesterday (Wednesday 15 January 2025), officers attached to Central West Police District were called to a home on McLachlan Street, Orange, following reports of an alleged break and enter.
Police were told between 8pm on Tuesday (14 January 2025( and 12.45am yesterday, a number of people allegedly broke into the property, stealing the keys to a Honda Civic before driving off with the vehicle.
Following inquiries, about 1pm yesterday, officers attached to Central West and Chifley Police District located the vehicle in the rear yard of a property on Pindari Place, Orange.
Police arrested a 16-year-old boy and a 34-year-old woman at the scene before they were taken to Orange Police Station.
The boy was charged with two counts enter building / land with intent commit indictable offence, drive conveyance taken without consent of owner and never licensed person drive vehicle on road.
He was refused bail to appear before a children's court today (Thursday 16 January 2025).
The woman was charged with be carried in conveyance taken without consent of owner, receive property – theft – serious indictable offence and dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception.
She was given strict conditional bail to appear before Orange Local Court on Thursday 6 March 2025.
