{"id":407047,"date":"2026-01-11T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407047\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:18:07","slug":"man-allegedly-carrying-a-vest-covered-in-duct-taped-objects-in-bondi-charged-with-offensive-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407047\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly carrying a vest covered in duct taped objects in Bondi charged with offensive conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man allegedly carrying a vest covered in duct tape has been arrested in Bondi overnight and charged with behaving in an offensive manner.<\/p>\n

Officers attached to Operation Shelter were called to Oxford Street about 10pm on Sunday following reports of suspicious behaviour and located a 33-year-old Victorian man allegedly wearing a vest covered in duct taped objects.<\/p>\n

After searching the man’s vehicle officers located a second taped vest, a face mask and a tin believed to contain prohibited drugs.<\/p>\n

Both vests were examined by officers attached to the bomb disposal unit and they were deemed safe.<\/p>\n

The man was taken to Surry Hills Police Station and charged with providing false information of person\/property in danger, possessing a prohibited drug and behaving in an offensive manner.<\/p>\n

The man was refused bail to appear before Bail Division Local Court on Monday.<\/p>\n

Operation Shelter has been in force since October 8, 2023, with NSW Police investigating hate crimes with an antisemitic focus.<\/p>\n

Hours before the arrest, a memorial service had been held a suburb away for the Bondi Beach shooting victims<\/a> and to mark Shloshim \u2014 the end of the Jewish period of mourning.<\/p>\n

Thousands gathered at the vigil to hear from witnesses, as well as family members of victims killed during the December 14 terrorist attack.<\/p>\n

There was a heavy police presence with specialist officers on horseback at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man allegedly carrying a vest covered in duct tape has been arrested in Bondi overnight and charged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,27931,89155,215750,193223,215751,2025,48,44,2733,4277,92949,215749,670],"class_list":["post-407047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bondi","tag-bondi-beach","tag-bondi-shootings","tag-bondi-terror-attack","tag-bondi-vigil","tag-charges","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-police","tag-offensive-conduct","tag-operation-shelter","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}