US EditionMan in train station assault day after Sydney Airport incident
Nicholas Teplin faces multiple assault and police-related charges after a police firearm was discharged during his arrest and he allegedly attacked several men within 24 hours, authorities said.
- On Wednesday morning, Australian Federal Police officers at Sydney Airport's domestic terminal arrested Nicholas Teplin, 41, after a struggle that discharged an AFP firearm.
- Following reports of suspicious behaviour at the T2 domestic check-in counters, an airline alerted police and Teplin was charged with creating a disturbance and hindering a Commonwealth official.
- Soon after, police allege, Mr Teplin approached a 45-year-old man on Central Railway Station's Suburban Concourse at about 4.40pm and punched him, then struck two more men.
- He has been charged with assaulting several people at Central Station and refused bail ahead of his Friday court appearance.
- Sydney magistrate Daniel Covington ordered him to receive a mental health assessment, amid prosecutors' claims of insufficient evidence of mental impairment.
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