{"id":482621,"date":"2026-02-16T00:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482621\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:37:13","slug":"charges-laid-men-sought-over-statewide-alleged-carpark-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482621\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges laid, men sought over statewide alleged carpark scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men are before the courts as police investigate an alleged theft scam carried out in dozens of carparks across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/new-south-wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"New South Wales\">New South Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police were told two men worked together to steal from multiple elderly women inside shopping centre carparks around the state between January 3 and January 7.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men would approach the victims, tell them there was an issue with their car, and ask them to raise the bonnet for an inspection.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e9614c8c-3189-42f3-824b-64c3f4291193.jpeg\"   alt=\"police generic\"\/>Police were told two men worked together to steal from multiple elderly women inside shopping centre carparks around the state between January 3 and January 7. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>The other man would then ransack the car for items such as wallets, purses, cash, and cards.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>This alleged scam took place in locations from Newcastle to Wagga Wagga, including Sydney.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, police attended a service station on Manning River Drive, Glenthorne, near Taree, and arrested two other men, aged 37 and 57.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the men arrived in Australia on December 28 last year, after they allegedly lied on their passenger cards and visa applications.<\/p>\n<p>Today, both men will be charged with a further 17 offences, including dealing with the proceeds of crime, and making a false statement to an officer over migration.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Police are also seeking two other men, but investigators believe both men may now be overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe first man is described as being of Caucasian appearance, aged in his 40s, of solid build, wearing \ufeffa white with black checkered long sleeve shirt, black shorts, sunglasses, and a black hat with a white graphic on front.<\/p>\n<p>The second man is described as being of Caucasian appearance, in his 40s, of medium build, wearing a white sleeve shirt, black shorts, black shoes with white bottoms, a blue face mask, and a black hat with a white graphic on front.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may recognise these men or has information that may assist police is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"online\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men are before the courts as police investigate an alleged theft scam carried out in dozens of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-482621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482621","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=482621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}