A woman has been accused of stabbing a police officer following a neighbourhood dispute south of Sydney.
Police say they went to a home in the Wollongong suburb of Balgownie about 9.30pm on Saturday after reports a 25-year-old man had been threatened and his car damaged in a dispute with his neighbours.
It's alleged that as they spoke to the 18-year-old man and 23-year-old woman, she retreated inside before arming herself with a kitchen knife and lunging at an officer, who tried to fire his taser as he moved away.
A second officer did the same and the woman was detained.
The senior constable sustained a stab wound to his hand. He was treated by paramedics and then at Wollongong Hospital but has since been released.
The woman was also tended to by ambulance paramedics before being transferred to the same hospital under police guard.
The 18-year-old man has been charged with using intimidation or violence to unlawfully influence a person and destroying or damaging property, and will appear in Wollongong Local Court next month.
Upon her release, the woman was charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and to resist or prevent arrest, wounding a police officer, using intimidation or violence to unlawfully influence a person and breaching bail.
She was held in custody to appear in Wollongong Local Court on Sunday.
