Police are issuing a warning to the public to be vigilant at automatic teller machines following reports of a pair of offenders targeting elderly customers interstate. Information has been received from South Australia police of two men targeting elderly customers at ATMs. The pair have been distracting the customer, confusing them enough to obtain access […]
A 65-year-old Tweed Heads man critically injured during an alleged assault at Wilsonton on February 22 has passed away this morning in hospital. Police arrested and charged a 22-year-old Toowoomba man with grievous bodily harm later that day. Detectives will amend this charge to manslaughter during the man’s appearance in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court this […]
An 89-year-old woman seriously injured in a traffic crash that occurred near Warwick on February 18 has died overnight. The woman was the passenger in a sedan that was allegedly struck by a from behind and forced into the path of an oncoming truck around 2pm on the Cunningham Highway. The woman and the driver […]
A search involving multiple agencies will resume at 6am this morning for a man who was reported missing after swimming at Josephine Falls. Around 5.30pm yesterday afternoon, police received information that a man was missing after he and a woman, both tourists, had been swimming at the falls. Initial reports suggest that the pair had […]
Police are investigating a serious traffic crash involving a bus and car at Craignish this afternoon. Initial information indicates a sedan was travelling west on Piabla-Burrum Heads Road and was turning right into Petersen Road when a bus crashed into the passenger side of the vehicle around 4pm. A six-year-old male passenger of the sedan […]
A 22-year-old Mackay man has been charged with more than 200 child exploitation material offences following a six-month police investigation. Detectives from Townsville CPIU and Taskforce Argos commenced an investigation into the man following the execution of a search warrant at a Townsville residence in August last year. The man was charged with three child […]
Police have laid further charges against a 24-year-old man following the alleged stabbing of a man in Zillmere and a public nuisance incident at Chermside on Sunday night. It will be alleged a 19-year-old man was stabbed in the carpark of a convenience store on Handford Road around 10pm. It will further be alleged just […]
Police are appealing for any witnesses to an alleged serious assault that occurred yesterday in Toowoomba to contact them. It will be alleged that around 3pm man and a woman were involved in a physical altercation on Bridge Street, Wilsonton when a 65-year-old man stopped his vehicle and attempted to assist the woman. During an […]
Police have shut down a drug production and trafficking operation located on Brisbane’s southside and seized a significant amount of drugs following raids conducted over the weekend. Detectives from the State Crime Command and Brisbane Region executed six search warrants on addresses in Goodna, Darra, Oxley, and Acacia Ridge. Police located six cannabis grow houses […]
Detectives are investigating the armed robbery of a convenience store in Highgate Hill last night. Around 10pm a man entered the Gladstone Road store before producing a knife and demanding money. The female attended complied with his demands and he left the store with a sum of cash and a quantity of cigarettes. No one […]