Crime by Heath Parkes-Hupton Five people have been injured in a spate of separate stabbings across Sydney s west overnight. Police officers were called to incidents in Northmead, Doonside, Cabramatta and two in Whalan in less than three hours, with the youngest alleged victim being just 15. Only one person has so far been charged - an 18-year-old arrested after the Doonside incident - as investigations continue into four of the stabbings. The first occurred in a home on Hammers Road, Northmead, with police called to the scene about 11.15pm. Police were called to incidents across the city. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Gaye Gerard
23:42 EDT, 13 May 2021
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A motorist pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt got far more than a traffic fine after police found $75,000 hidden in his car.
The man was charged with dealing with the proceeds of crime after more than $650,000 more in unexplained cash was uncovered in a search of his flat.
Highway patrol officers stopped a Toyota Camry in Bella Vista in Sydney s north-west just before 8.30pm on Thursday after spotting the driver without his seatbelt on.
Cops searched the man s car (pictured) after pulling him over for not wearing a seatbelt in Sydney s north-west on Thursday
More than $750,000 (pictured left) was found in the man s apartment and in his car (pictured right)
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A man has been hospitalised after allegedly being struck with an axe when he refused to hand over his poker machine payout ticket at a pub in Sydney’s west.
Police were called to the Commercial Hotel on Hassall Street, Parramatta just before 11am on Thursday following reports of a robbery.
The Commercial Hotel on Hassall Street in Parramatta.
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Officers have been told a 37-year-old man was inside a bathroom at the pub when another man approached him and “demanded a poker machine payout ticket”.
When the patron refused, he was allegedly struck in the face with an axe and had his wallet stolen. Police said the man and a woman left the scene.
A tradesman who pointed a laser at a police plane from his backyard said he was trying to shoo it away so he could get some sleep.
Wayne Wiggins pleaded guilty at Parramatta Local Court on Wednesday to an act with intent to prejudice the safety of an aircraft.
Wiggins, 46, pointed the light at a PolAir 8 chopper from his home in Toongabbie in Sydney s west at midnight on April 21.
Police alleged the act could have been fatal as two officers suffered temporary blurred vision. I was sleeping and just the contact buzzing of the plane which I had no idea which was the police, I just did it as a deterrent so I could go to sleep, Wiggins told 7NEWS outside court.
BMW driver charged after woman dies in crash between car and bus
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A man has been charged and had his licence suspended after he allegedly drove through a red light and crashed into a bus in Sydney’s west, fatally injuring his female passenger.
Police were called to Argyle Street in Parramatta, near the intersection of O’Connell Street, just after 8am on Saturday where they found a grey BMW sedan and a bus had collided.
The scene where a woman died after a car and bus crashed in Parramatta.