A police officer who was hailed a vigilante hero on social media for breaking into a convicted child sex offender’s outback home, tying him up and stealing $100,000 in cash has been jailed.
The NSW officer, whose identity is protected by court orders, knew his 78-year-old victim had a stash of cash in a safe because he searched his home over a child sex offence in 2020.
Four years later, the officer and a co-offender drove from Sydney to break into the elderly man’s home, borrowing a car, filling up jerry cans with petrol and leaving their mobile phones behind to avoid detection.
The NSW officer, whose identity is protected by court orders, knew his 78-year-old victim had a stash of cash in a safe.
The pair burst into the man’s home on the evening of October 3, 2024, forcing him facedown on the ground and tying his hands and feet.
They threatened him with further harm until the victim told them where the safe key was, allowing them to steal about $100,000.
The officer pleaded guilty to aggravated break and enter and was today sentenced to at least six years’ jail, with a maximum term of 10 years.
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“Use of private information gathered by the process of search warrants for anything other than proper purposes connected to the administration of justice is entirely unacceptable and must be deplored,” Judge Newlinds said.
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The media attention from the 2024 robbery led to the officer being celebrated as a “hero” on social media, while the victim was shunned in his small town.
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“The victim had served his time for his crime and was entitled to be left alone to live his life without being bashed and robbed by a police officer involved in …
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Not surprised with this story. Everything below is true and a journalist friend can vouch. While on the registry local cops stole items from my house, vandalized my house and stole numerous items with my DNA on it and a journalist friend who had a source inside the local police department stated the police were going to plant things with my DNA on it at the local park so I could be arrested and my deferred adjudication revoked so I could be put in prison for ten years – all because I was on tv news as a pfr in the 2nd largest TX market calling for investigations into the most prominent county commissioner, city leaders and a developer for bribery among other crimes and because the city leaders knew I accidentally uncovered a scheme with the tax appraisal district going back to 1982 where 1/4 of the city properties were illegally taxed for city property tax when the properties had never been legally annexed into the city.
The county appraisal district (for a county with more than 1 million people) head honcho threatened me in person and had already hired at taxpayer expense an outside law firm ready to fight me. In the county, this town and the neighboring town had been known for decades to be good ol boy very corrupt, so much so, the local city officials stole all the school funds and the state had to shut down the schools. The neighboring local town had the mayor, city secretary and water dept employees stealing city money by selling city assets. The county DA (also corrupt and also friends with the mayor) dropped all charges a week before the county DA was to leave office as he was voted out of office. When this city secretary refused to comply with open records for me, I made a complaint to the new county DA, and the city secretary never again refused to comply with state law in providing me open records as she wanted to stay under the radar from the new county DA.
And if that police plan failed with my DNA found in the park, their backup plan was to pull me over and plant drugs in my car or break into my house again and plant drugs. I came up with a plan to thwart the backup plans, and also forewarned probation that I could be arrested and why.The mayor pro-tem who rented a few places to members of one of the Mexican drug cartels were sent to stalk me so I went out back behind a tree, jumped the fence and hung out with a friend for safety – the same mayor pro-tem who had the chief of police warn the cartel whenever undercover feds were in town. The ex chief of police, who a few years before I moved to this small town previously had been caught having sex with a 14 year in his cop car on public property, who threatened physical harm to citizens, who divorced his wife and married the girl at age 15 and who was never charged with a crime, was stalking my family and friends who visited and followed them whenever they left. This city also had my journalist friend stalked and followed.
The prominent corrupt county commissioner oversaw probation, the jail and sheriff department. A sheriff employee threatened to my face to harm my children who lived with their mother. And my probation officer threatened to initiate a false charge so a false arrest warrant could be issued. I later learned it was because the probation department wanted me in prison (as well as the county commissioner who was good friends with my judge). And the county followed through with a false charge and a false arrest warrant, but later admitted to my judge what they did, so my deferred adjudication was not revoked.
Got my lost $1,000 of stolen items and vandalism damage by the local police reimbursed by jacking up the price to a developer when I sold my property, the same developer giving bribes. We had agreed upon a price a year or two earlier where I would make a reasonable profit, I just added another $1,000. After the TX AG Office called the mayor, the mayor called the developer and the developer called me on the same day the TX AG Office called the mayor and offered to buy me out, which the developer was planning on doing anyway but not for another year or two.
I put a stop to all the illegal harassment by going to the FBI who were very interested because at the time they were investigating the city leaders, the county commissioner (who ended up indicted) and other gov officials in the area and I was asked to come back with all the details. I never went back but instead stood in front of the full city council, chief of police, city attorney, ex city attorney, visiting attorney and citizens and told them this time they went to far with their harassment (been going on for years) and they left me no choice but to go to the FBI and they wanted me to come back with all the details of everything I know. I stated if you know what is best for you, you will leave me along. Never had one more problem from anyone after this comment on public record. (The visiting attorneys a the meeting appeared shocked…)
And after that, I ran into the chief of police twice at a bar in another city and he offered to buy me and my gf drinks. I was not allowed to drink, but both times I got all the free non-alcoholic drinks I wanted and my gf got all the free drinks she wanted. He knew I had enough dirt on him to put him in prison.