A boat with three men on board has been reported overdue in the Torres Strait today. The vessel, a white 5m Hooker Dinghy, left Saibai Island for Moa Island around 3pm yesterday, June 14. The vessel was reported overdue around midday today when it failed to arrive at Moa Island. An aerial search along the […]
At 7:37pm Police have revoked the PSPA at Beenleigh Train Station. Police have safely removed a suspicious device without incident. Train services have resumed operation. If you have information for police, contact Policelink by providing information using the online suspicious activity form 24hrs per day at www.police.qld.gov.au/reporting.Report crime information anonymously via Crime Stoppers. Call 1800 […]
Earlier today members of Taskforce Maxima executed search warrants at the Molendinar business and Biggera Waters home of a patched member of the Mongols Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMCG). A 26-year-old Gold Coast man has been charged with possessing dangerous drugs, possessing the proceeds of crime and possessing steroids. 84 grams of Methylampetamine, 56 grams of […]
Beenleigh Police have closed roads and set up an exclusion zone after a suspicious item was located near the Beenleigh Train Station this evening. Around 5.20pm police received a report of a suspicious item located in Macs Lane. Officers attended the scene and set up an exclusion zone a short time later. Specialist police, including the Explosive […]
A 38-year-old Ballard man has been charged following the discovery of an alleged clandestine laboratory in Ballard on June 13. At around 8.45am, officers executed a search warrant on a property on Old Murphy’s Creek Road where it will be alleged they located the clandestine laboratory and chemicals. The 38-year-old has been charged […]
Police investigating an alleged protracted assault of a 22-year-old woman in the Kingaroy area over the weekend have charged a man with torture, deprivation of liberty and unlawful wounding. It will be alleged that between Friday night (June 13) and Saturday morning (June 14) a woman was held against her will and assaulted at an […]
As part of ongoing enforcement action against criminal gangs and their networks, detectives from Task Force Maxima conducted a statewide deployment executing search warrants and road policing operations in close cooperation with officers from the Moreton, Wide Bay Burnett, Capricornia, Mackay, South West, Mount Isa, Townsville and Far North Police Districts. This deployment which occurred […]
A 72-year-old local woman is currently in Cairns Hospital with critical injuries after she was struck by a car at Mooroobool this morning. Preliminary investigations indicate the woman was walking along Beatrice Street, near the intersection with Irene Street, when a passing car struck her around 8.30am. The car stopped for a short period of […]
A woman has passed away in hospital overnight following a traffic crash at a café in Ravenshoe on June 9. The 82–year-old Silver Valley woman was transported to the Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital and was in a critical condition but was pronounced deceased around 9pm. Support services, including counselling, are continuing to […]
Police have charged a 35-year-old Townsville man following an investigation in Annandale overnight. At around 1am this morning, a vehicle was intercepted by officers on William Angliss Drive for the purpose of a roadside breath test. A subsequent search of the vehicle allegedly located three shotguns, ammunition, explosives, fireworks, a portable drug laboratory, knives, dangerous […]