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Man charged after alleged detain and assault offences - Central Coast

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Where: Coleridge Road, Central Coast, the street the release names · See the street on the map

Man charged after alleged detain and assault offences - Central Coast
Central Coast, New South Wales · NSW Police

The release

A man will face court today charged after allegedly detaining and assaulting a man known to him on the Central Coast yesterday.

About 12.20pm (Monday 14 September 2026), emergency services were called to Coleridge Road, Bateau Bay, after a man attended a property and told the occupants he had been assaulted and held against his will at a nearby address.

Officers attached to Tuggerah Lakes Police District attended and were told a 49-year-old man had attended a home on Poplars Avenue about 11.30am yesterday when he was allegedly threatened, detained and assaulted by a man known to him before he was able to escape.

The 49-year-old man was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to hospital for further treatment.

A short time later, officers established a crime scene at a home on Poplars Avenue.

A 50-year-old man was arrested a short time later and taken to Wyong Police Station.

The man was refused bail to appear before Bail Division Court 6 today (Tuesday 15 September 2026).

— NSW Police
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Crime in the Central Coast council area

Central Coast is a council area in New South Wales with about 357,816 residents. It has a Crime Score 46 out of 100 (moderate), 206th 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 (55th percentile), sexual offences (70th percentile), robbery (61st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 50.

Violent
1,360 per 100k
Property
2,707 per 100k
Break-ins
305 per 100k
Theft
1,115 per 100k

See the full Central Coast crime profile

2016-17: 1,170 per 100,0002017-18: 1,208 per 100,0002018-19: 1,129 per 100,0002019-20: 1,122 per 100,0002020-21: 1,153 per 100,0002021-22: 1,159 per 100,0002022-23: 1,255 per 100,0002023-24: 1,310 per 100,0002024-25: 1,434 per 100,0002025-26: 1,360 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Central Coast, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — up 16% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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