Crime has nothing to do with ethnicity. If you go to France, Germany, the UK,  Eastern Europeans (Russians, Poles, Romanians etc) are the main groups involved in crime. Crime is largely a result of socio economic pressures. Hmmm I might be wasting my time with the polysyllabically challenged.....

Don't you watch Inspector Rex? 

Teen accused of attack on woman, 82
May 12, 2008 01:14pm
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A TEENAGER charged with throwing an 82-year-old woman to the ground and sexually assaulting her was remanded in custody when he appeared in court today.

Police said the elderly woman was walking through a park in in West Ryde, northwest Sydney, just after 6am (AEST) yesterday when she was attacked.

Robert El-Chammas, 18, of Ermington, in Sydney's northwest, allegedly threw the woman to the ground then sexually assaulted her.

In Burwood Local Court today, Mr El-Chammas faced charges of aggravated sexual assault, assault with intent to have sexual intercourse, resisting arrest and assaulting police.

He did not apply for bail and Magistrate Jane Mottley remanded him in custody to reappear on June 2.

The woman is recovering at Royal North Shore Hospital

Car stopped in Alexandria for a RBT was full of gunsArticle from: Font size: Decrease Increase Email article: Email Print article: Print By Larissa Cummings

June 11, 2008 12:00am

A GROUP of youths in a car stockpiled with guns, ammunition and robbery tools were stopped in their tracks yesterday when police pulled them over for a random breath test.

The men were flagged down by police at Alexandria in a blue Subaru WRX at about 3am.

Police confirmed the group was equipped to carry out an armed robbery.

The driver, Van Do, 31 and front seat passenger, Chompeay Kim, 28, faced Central Local Court yesterday charged with possessing an unauthorised firearm and possessing ammunition. Vietnamese-born Do, from Bankstown, was also charged with possession of a prohibited drug after police found methylamphetamine, or ice, in the car.

The court heard Do, who was is on parole for drug offences, has a "lengthy" record which includes a jail term served for possession of firearms just two years ago.

Co-accused, Andrew Tran, 30, was charged with possessing an unauthorised weapon, possessing/using a prohibited weapon and possessing ammunition without a licence.

The fourth man, 22-year-old Tola Ngoun, was charged with custody of an offensive implement.

Tran and Ngoun will face court tomorrow.

Police documents state officers asked the men to step out of the car when they saw Kim bend forwards in his seat.

When they searched the car, they allegedly found a 9mm pistol loaded with ten rounds on the floor where Kim was seated. On the floor of the driver's side they found a 7.65 calibre Beretta pistol with two rounds in the magazine.

When they searched the men, police found a large 60cm-long machete hidden down the pants of Ngoun and a 950-bolt Firefly taser gun in one of Tran's pockets.

A third gun, a 0.25 calibre pistol loaded with six rounds, was also found in the car.

Police allege they found duct tape in a plastic bag, four balaclavas, black leather gloves, a paper pag containing additional rounds of ammunition, and 0.4g of the party drug ice.

Redfern Crime Manager Brad Monk said not long before the men were flagged down, police reported an attempted armed robbery at a city brothel. The four would-be thieves were allegedly armed with pistols and disguised in balaclavas but their plan was foiled when they were refused entry.

Magistrate Allan Moore yesterday denied bail for both Kim and Do.

Both men are due to reappear on July 14.