CANBERRA, Australia -- A disgruntled Australian tax worker will face charges in relation to a nationwide letter bomb campaign after he was taken into police custody in a Canberra hospital Friday.
Police said suspended Australian Taxation Office worker Colin George Dunstan, 43, was expected to be formally charged Saturday and would remain in police custody until a bedside magistrate's hearing.The letter bomb campaign was directed at senior ATO and Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission officials.
Police were called to a suburb in Sydney's north end after Dunstan was taken into custody when a suspicious package was found. A street in the suburb of Waitara was evacuated while police investigated the parcel.
Earlier on Friday, bomb experts called to a Sydney suburban post office exploded the 27th bomb found during the three-day campaign.
Acting Australian Federal Police Commander Brian Hepworth would not say why Dunstan was hospitalized.