Escaped Immigration detainee Paea Teu arrested for alleged stabbing and assault of border workers on way to airport
An immigration detainee who allegedly stabbed a Border Force officer in the neck and assaulted another after escaping a vehicle en route to Sydney Airport has been arrested.
Tongan national Paea Teu, aged 28, was being taken from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre to the airport to be deported on Thursday when he allegedly attacked two men who were transporting him.
Police will allege Mr Teu stabbed a 54-year-old male in the neck and cheek and assaulted a 36-year-old male, a NSW Police statement said.
The injured men were treated at Westmead Hospital.
The 28-year-old escaped after the alleged attack as the van travelled along James Ruse Drive in Clyde, and police were called to the scene about 3.40am that morning.
A major search operation was launched under Strike Force Cobra to locate the detainee as police issued a warrant for his arrest.
Police were then called to Eschol Park Drive in the south-west Sydney suburb of Eschol Park about 9.40pm on Friday night after reports Mr Teu was spotted.
He was arrested a short time later on Ballantrae Drive in nearby St Andrews and taken to Campbeltown Police Station.
A 24-year-old woman was also arrested at the scene and taken to the police station.
Police inquiries are ongoing.
Police had established a perimeter around a home on Duncansby Crescent in St Andrews on Friday afternoon after information suggested Mr Teu was there, but he was not found inside.
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