A man who escaped from a correctional facility on the South Coast has been extradited to New South Wales and charged.
Police were alerted after a 44-year-old man went missing from South Nowra last Wednesday morning (29 January 2025).
About 4.30am today (Friday 7 February 2025), officers attached to ACT Policing’s City Station attended an apartment block in Dooring Street, Braddon, responding to reports a man was acting suspiciously in the underground carpark.
Police arrested a 44-year-old man in the stairwell and he was taken to the ACT Watchhouse.
The man appeared before ACT Magistrates Court today, where an application for extradition was granted.
About 2.15pm today, the man accompanied by officers attached to Monaro and South Coast Police Districts, was taken to Queanbeyan Police Station.
He was charged with inmate escape/attempt to escape from lawful custody, take and drive conveyance without consent of owner and larceny.
He was refused bail to appear in Parramatta Local Court tomorrow (Saturday 8 February 2025).
