 He was arrested in August 2016, after police raids of his home in November 2015 found cattle prods, mercury, information relating to home-made bombs and a document drafted by Galea called the "Terrorist's Cookbook", intended to be a how-to-guide for far-right terrorists.Galea was convicted of guilty of plotting terrorist attacks and creating a document likely to facilitate a terrorist act in December 2019.The Court was told that his aim were to eliminate the leaders of the left in Melbourne, blaming them for the "Islamisation" of Australia.