{"id":491201,"date":"2026-02-19T23:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:56:18","slug":"man-charged-with-terrorism-offences-after-vehicle-stop-leads-to-raid-on-sydney-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491201\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with terrorism offences after vehicle stop leads to raid on Sydney home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/terrorism\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\" terrorism\">terrorism<\/a> offence after police analysed phones they seized during a traffic stop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sydney\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sydney&#039;s\">Sydney&#8217;s<\/a> south-west.<\/p>\n<p>Officers searched a Toyota sedan on December 31 after pulling the car over on Dargan Street, \ufeffYagoona during a patrol of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Drugs, cash and three mobile phones were \ufeffallegedly seized from the car.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6a9e3479-74f1-4b1e-a085-1e8ea1a013b8.jpeg\"   alt=\"Bass Hill arrest terrorism charge\"\/>The discovery sparked a raid on a home in Bass Hill around 6am yesterday, where police seized more mobile phones, storage devices and a knife.  (NSW Police)<\/p>\n<p>A 31-year-old man was arrested and taken to Bankstown Police Station, where he was charged with supplying prohibited drugs, dealing with proceeds of crime under $5000 and using a non-compliant light vehicle.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>He was refused bail and faced court on January 1, where he was granted conditional bail.<\/p>\n<p>After examining the mobile phones, police allegedly unearthed violent extremist material.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery sparked a raid on a home in Bass Hill around 6am yesterday, where police seized more mobile phones, storage devices and a knife.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/636be9c5-3423-4e31-839d-2cc0cf02bbc8.png\"   alt=\"Arrest Bass Hill terrorism charges Feb 2026\"\/>A 31-year-old man was arrested and taken to Bansktown Police Station where he was charged with possessing violent extremist material  (NSW Police)<\/p>\n<p>A 31-year-old man was arrested and taken to Bansktown Police Station where he was charged with possessing violent extremist material and possessing or using a prohibited weapon without a permit.<\/p>\n<p>He was refused bail and appeared at Bankstown Local Court yesterday, where he was granted conditional bail to appear back in court on March 3.<\/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":"A man has been charged with a terrorism offence after police analysed phones they seized during a traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-491201","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\/491201","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=491201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}