Australian Federal Police have charged a Queensland man over alleged email threats to a federal politician.<\/p>\n
Inquiries were launched by the AFP\u2019s National Security Investigations team in April following a report from a parliamentarian\u2019s office regarding allegedly offensive and threatening emails and voice messages.<\/p>\n
Officers conducted a search warrant at a Gympie address on Monday after linking a 33-year-old man to the alleged threatening behaviour.<\/p>\n
He was arrested and charged with six counts of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.<\/p>\n
The man faces a maximum penalty of five years behind bars.<\/p>\n
He is set to appear before Gympie Magistrates Court on August 3.<\/p>\n
AFP Detective Superintendent Bill Freeman said the police force “does not tolerate” such behaviour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe AFP uses a range of tools, including world-leading technology and intelligence techniques, to identify individuals who break the law by harassing, menacing or threatening Commonwealth officials,\u201d Det Supt Freeman said.<\/p>\n
The arrest comes after the establishment of the AFP\u2019s NSI teams in October last year.<\/p>\n
The teams were set up to target people causing high levels of harm to Australia\u2019s social cohesion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Federal Police have charged a Queensland man over alleged email threats to a federal politician. Inquiries were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29623,64,63,44,1158,9717,5324],"class_list":["post-754744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-afp","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-police","tag-politician","tag-threats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754744","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=754744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}