A 22-year-old man who allegedly obtained explosives in preparation for a terrorist act has appeared in Perth Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n
Lucas Shawn Cameron allegedly conducted online research, engaged in conversations about attack methods, and obtained a machete in November and December last year, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Police allege he sought help on a messaging platform about “explosive devices, military and tactical training, education, weapons manufacturing, combat techniques and fake documents” as part of planning for a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n
The bearded 22-year-old appeared in court via video link from custody and when asked by Magistrate Ben Tyers if he understood the charge, said he did.<\/p>\n
Extremist material<\/p>\n
Mr Cameron was already facing multiple terrorism-related charges, but three of those have been discontinued.<\/p>\n
He is now charged with doing an act in preparation for a terrorist act, possessing violent extremist material and accessing violent extremist material.<\/p>\n
Mr Cameron was first arrested after federal police raided his house in the northern Perth suburb of Westminster and seized two computers and a mobile phone.<\/p>\n
Details of the alleged plot are not yet known.<\/p>\n
Mr Cameron is scheduled to appear in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court again on November 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old man who allegedly obtained explosives in preparation for a terrorist act has appeared in Perth Magistrates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1348,154544,48,43,44,17726,86,1158,356456,5316,41,39,42,40,45,513247],"class_list":["post-945995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-counter-terrorism","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-perth-breaking-news","tag-perth-news","tag-police","tag-terror-plot","tag-terrorism","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wa-news","tag-wa-terror-plot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945995","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=945995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}