A boy is currently assisting police with their enquiries into a threat made to an educational facility at Miami this afternoon. Preliminary investigations suggest threatening text messages were sent to the phones of several students at the school on Oceanic Drive. As a result, the school implemented its standard internal security procedures and notified police. […]
Earlier today Detectives from Task Force Maxima executed a search warrant at a Leiden Street, Reedy Creek address and located a significant quantity of drugs and weapons. This arrest resulted from investigations into criminal activities of the Hells Angels Criminal Gang. Police will allege during the execution of a search warrant they located and seized […]
Police are appealing for public assistance following an armed robbery in Chermside on Wednesday night. Just after 11pm, a man entered a convenience store on Gympie Road armed with a knife and demanded cash from a male staff member. A second man armed with a knife also entered the store. Two men fled the scene […]
Cairns detectives have charged a 59-year-old woman following an investigation into the alleged misuse of money from a Trust fund account. Police allege the woman, who held a board position as co-chair of an Indigenous development organisation, misappropriated the funds between May and October last year. It will be further alleged that the misappropriated funds […]
Police have charged 14 people following the closure of a local drug operation in Cairns yesterday. Detectives from the Cairns Child Protection and Investigation Unit (CPIU) executed search warrants at eight homes in Earlville, Westcourt, Manoora, Mooroobool, Edge Hill and Woree. During the search of the properties, officers located quantities of drugs, drug utensils as […]
Police have charged a 38-year-old woman with drink driving after a two-vehicle traffic crash at Labrador last night. Initial investigations indicate around 8.30pm a vehicle was travelling on Turpin Road when it crashed into the back of a stationary vehicle, pushing it forward into a tree. The second vehicle was unoccupied at the time. One […]
The Forensic Crash Unit are investigating a single vehicle traffic crash that occurred today, taking the life of a 76-year-old Dotswood woman. Initial information suggests that about 1pm, a vehicle was travelling along the Rossville-Bloomfield Road, Rossville when it left the road and crashed into a culvert. The driver and single occupant was pronounced deceased […]
Police have charged a Camira man following an incident that occurred this afternoon in Annerley. It will be alleged that the man forced entry into a house on Venner Road and assaulted a woman who was inside the house. The woman was able to escape from the house, running to a neighbouring property. When Annerley […]
Taskforce Maxima have today executed a search warrant on an address at Chuwar in Ipswich. During the course of the search a switch blade knife was located and a 45-year-old Chuwar man alleged to be the President of the Mongols Gold Coast Chapter and a 34 year old woman were charged with the of possessing […]
Police have charged a man with attempted murder after an incident occurred in Canungra this morning. At around 10am, police were attending an unrelated matter at a hotel on Lamington National Park Road, when a woman was heard screaming within the hotel. Police went to investigate and found a man armed with a knife holding […]