{"id":488673,"date":"2026-02-18T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488673\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:15:11","slug":"workers-in-cherry-picker-help-police-catch-man-accused-of-lewd-acts-in-goulburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488673\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers in cherry picker help police catch man accused of lewd acts in Goulburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">WARNING: This story mentions allegations of inappropriate sexual acts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police in Goulburn in southern NSW were called to a medical centre yesterday morning after a receptionist raised the alarm about a man&#8217;s behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers said a man at the Fenwick Crescent business was observed making sexual comments while repeatedly touching himself in a lewd way.<\/p>\n<p>Sexual assault\u00a0support lines:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said the man fled on foot when they arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was next seen outside a nearby childcare centre and it was there that he was accused of performing a lewd act towards a staff member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was again pursued by police with the foot chase covering private backyards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">That was when bystanders working in a cherry picker on Lagoon Street helped police by sharing the man&#8217;s whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The aerial intelligence from the lineworkers helped police close in on their target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers eventually arrested a 37-year-old man before charging him with stalking, intimidation and carrying out a sexual act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was also charged with unlawfully entering properties with an intent to commit offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARNING: This story mentions allegations of inappropriate sexual acts. Police in Goulburn in southern NSW were called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45387,64,63,247032,247030,247031,50031,247033,247029,44376,44,4277,179841],"class_list":{"0":"post-488673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-bystanders","12":"tag-carry-out-sexual-act","13":"tag-cherry-picker-help","14":"tag-goulburn","15":"tag-goulburn-local-court","16":"tag-intimidation","17":"tag-medical-centre","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nsw-police","20":"tag-police-chase"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488673","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=488673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}