A man arrested following a break and enter near McLachlan Street on Tuesday has been questioned by police over the attempted robbery of a taxi driver.
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A 27-year-old man was apprehended at a property on Dalton Street after being disturbed while robbing a house in the east Orange area at around 12.30pm.
Officers from the Central West Police District located the man who fled from the house when the property owner arrived home.
Police will allege drugs and a hatchet were seized when the man was searched.
Chief Inspector Scott Rayner said the man had been questioned by police in relation to a number of thefts, including the attempted robbery of a taxi driver in the early hours of Monday morning.
The taxi driver was threatened with a large carving knife after collecting a man from Coulson Place at around 2.30am on Monday morning.
The man was later charged with a number of offences, including aggravated break and enter, drug possession, armed robbery, intimidation and fraud.
In an unrelated incident, police were called to a Dora Street house at about 1.30pm on Tuesday following reports a man had armed himself with a shotgun and was making threats to discharge it.
Chief Inspector Rayner said upon arrival police found the report to be unsubstantiated.
He said police found nobody at the house was in any immediate danger and no arrests were made.
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