{"id":582175,"date":"2026-04-03T04:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582175\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:57:08","slug":"two-nsw-teenagers-charged-over-violent-extremist-material-allegedly-linked-to-terror-new-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582175\/","title":{"rendered":"Two NSW teenagers charged over violent extremist material allegedly linked to terror | New South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/new-south-wales\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New South Wales<\/a> teenagers have been charged with allegedly possessing violent extremist material after police searched one of their homes and found a ballistic-style vest, several notebooks and literature they allege contained extremist references.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Australian federal police and NSW police released a statement on Friday morning confirming the boys, aged 15 and 16 and both from Moree in northern NSW, had been charged with possession of alleged extremist material after a joint counterterrorism investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The investigation began in December when New England police received information a teenager was allegedly accessing extremist material online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On 27 March, investigators searched a home and seized a mobile phone, a ballistic-style vest and several notebooks. The 15-year-old boy was charged at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Following a forensic examination of the items, federal and state investigators swooped on two Moree homes on Thursday, where handwritten notes and pieces of literature allegedly containing extremist references were seized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 15-year old was then arrested and charged with knowingly collecting and making documents connected with terrorism, and using a carriage service to transmit violent extremist material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Another boy, 16, was also arrested and charged with using a carriage service to possess violent extremist material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Both have been refused bail and will appear before Parramatta children\u2019s court on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two New South Wales teenagers have been charged with allegedly possessing violent extremist material after police searched one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-582175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582175","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=582175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}