Man charged following alleged arson attacks - Taren Point
Where: Holt Road, Taren Point, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
A man has been charged following two alleged arson attacks in Taren Point earlier this year.
About 4.30am on Sunday 12 April 2026, emergency services were called to a home on Holt Road, near Old Taren Point Road, Taren Point, following reports of a car fire.
Officers attached to Sutherland Shire Police Area Command attended and found two cars parked in the driveway of the house alight.
Police established a crime scene and commenced investigations under Strikeforce Bellquin.
On Tuesday 25 August 2026, police arrested and charged a 37-year-old man. He remains before the court.
Following inquiries, about 11:15pm on Saturday 26 September 2026, police arrested a 30-year-old man in Buchanan Street, Kandos.
He was taken to Mudgee Police Station where he was charged with destroy property in company use fire.
He was refused bail to appear at Bail Division Court 4 yesterday (Sunday 27 September 2026), where he was granted conditional bail to appear at Sutherland Local Court on Tuesday 6 October 2026.
— NSW PoliceCrime in the Sutherland council area
Sutherland is a council area in New South Wales with about 241,327 residents. It has a Crime Score 22 out of 100 (low), 323rd 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 robbery (51st percentile), homicide (39th percentile), sexual offences (27th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 28.
- Violent
- 674 per 100k
- Property
- 1,378 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 104 per 100k
- Theft
- 627 per 100k
See the full Sutherland crime profile
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