Police from a newly-established domestic violence high-risk offender team have charged a wanted man over a domestic-related assault in the Illawarra earlier this year.
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Police say a 22-year-old woman – who is pregnant – was choked and bitten by a man known to her, at a home in Kanahooka on September 29.
It will also be alleged the man damaged a door in the home, before leaving the scene.
Officers from Lake Illawarra police were notified and launched an investigation.
Police attended a home on Hertford Street, Berkeley, just after 8am on Tuesday and arrested a 23-year-old man in a garage at the rear of the property.
He was taken to Lake Illawarra police station and charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm (DV), destroy or damage property (DV), and the outstanding warrant.
The man appeared in Wollongong Local Court on Tuesday, where he was refused bail to reappear at the same court on November 22.
The man was charged by police from the new Southern Region Domestic Violence High Risk Offender Team (DV HROT).
The DV HROT began operating in the Southern Region on Monday, targeting recidivist offenders across the state’s south.
