Investigation underway after string of break and enters, kidnapping - Tamworth
Where: Kalinda Place, Tamworth, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
Police have commenced an investigation after a string of break and enters and a kidnapping in the state’s northeast overnight.
Today (Monday 7 September 2026), officers attached to Oxley Police District commenced an investigation following reports a BMW sedan was stolen from a home on Kalinda Place, Hillvue, between 12am and 2.10am.
About 2.20am, the stolen sedan attended at a petrol station on Jewry Street, Taminda, where an occupant filled up with fuel before leaving without paying.
About 3.40am, police received reports of the same vehicle a motel on Gunnedah Road, Westdale, where a group of people exited the vehicle and kicked open a motel room door.
Members of the group demanded keys and cash from the occupant – a man in his 30s – before stealing keys to a Mazda station wagon, a mobile phone and a backpack containing a wallet, laptop, and other personal items.
The group then kicked open a second motel room door before demanding keys and cash from the occupant – a man in his 50s – and fleeing with keys to a Toyota SUV and a wallet.
About 4.35am, the same group – including one person armed with a machete – demanded money from a man in his 50s, who was sitting in a vehicle in a carpark on Armidale Road, East Tamworth.
Police were told the man was ordered by the group to enter the backseat of another vehicle – believed to be stolen – before he was driven to a bank on Peel Street, where the group demanded he withdraw money.
Police responded, however, the group was unable to be located.
As police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incidents, officers are urging anyone who may have CCTV/mobile phone or dashcam footage, or who has witnessed any suspicious activity in the area today, to come forward.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au . Information is managed on a confidential basis. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.
— NSW PoliceCrime in the Tamworth council area
Tamworth is a council area in New South Wales with about 66,403 residents. It has a Crime Score 72 out of 100 (high), 53rd of 362 councils nationally.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (82nd percentile), sexual offences (81st percentile), break-ins (81st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 70.
- Violent
- 2,434 per 100k
- Property
- 5,831 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 1,010 per 100k
- Theft
- 2,467 per 100k
See the full Tamworth crime profile
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