Three violent home invasions in the past week in Bermagui and Narooma have shaken locals on the NSW South Coast.
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In the latest incident, two men of a group of three have been charged after allegedly breaking into a home in Bermagui on Saturday morning.
Police said a 52-year-old man woke up in his unit in Narira Street when he heard a noise in his lounge room shortly after midnight.
As he entered the room he was confronted by three men who allegedly threatened him with a knife.
The man was cut twice in the face and the men allegedly stole his laptop and wallet before fleeing the unit.
Police arrested an 18-year-old Wallaga Lake man at the scene, and he was charged with aggravated break and enter to commit a serious indictable offence.
He appeared at Batemans Bay Local Court on Saturday.
Police arrested a second man, a 20-year-old, at Umbarra Road, Wallaga Lake.
He was charged with aggravated break and enter and committing a serious indictable offence whilst armed, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, take and drive conveyance without consent, as well as unlicensed driving.
He was refused bail and scheduled to appear in Batemans Bay Local Court on Sunday.
A third man, an 18-year-old also from Wallaga Lake, was arrested and later released from Narooma Police Station.
That home invasion came after two early morning home invasions in Narooma on Thursday last week.
Police suspect one man was responsible for both.
At 5am on January 22, a 38-year-old man answered his front door after knocking at an apartment on McMillan Road.
A man allegedly holding two knives burst in, threatening him and demanding cash and other items.
Half an hour later at 5.30am, a different 38-year-old man answered his door to knocking and was allegedly confronted by a man armed with a knife, threatening him and asking for property.
Both times the man was described as of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander appearance, thin and about 175cm tall.
He was dressed in a dark hooded jumper and shorts, according to the witnesses.
Meanwhile a man was also stabbed by a local woman at Wallaga Lake on January 11.
Locals have expressed their dismay over the incidents on social media with one resident questioning whether the community were "too trusting" in opening their doors to strangers.
With Narooma News.
