It was a busy night in Surfer Paradise last night with a large crowd descending on the entertainment precinct for day six of schoolies on the Gold Coast. Overnight there were 12 schoolies charged with 14 offences relating to drug and public nuisance offences with two schoolies given liquor infringement notices for drinking in a […]
A 17-year-old man has been injured after he fell from a balcony in Surfers Paradise early this morning. Around 3am it is believed the man was leaning over a balcony at a Cypress Avenue apartment to retrieve some property when he fell two floors. He was transported to the Gold Coast University Hospital in a […]
Police have charged a man following a single vehicle crash at Hendra early this morning. It will be alleged about 2am a car has crashed into the awning of a shop on Nudgee Road. The driver fled the scene however a member of the public directed police to Williams Avenue where a man was located. […]
A man has died following a traffic crash at Brighton this afternoon. Initial investigations indicate shortly after 5pm a motorcycle was travelling south on the Houghton Highway when it collided with the rear of a utility on the Ted Smout Memorial Bridge. The rider of the motorcycle, a 48-year-old Kippa-ring man, died at the scene. […]
A man has died following a traffic crash at Brighton this afternoon. Initial investigations indicate shortly after 5pm a motorcycle was travelling south on the Houghton Highway when it collided with the rear of a utility on the Ted Smout Memorial Bridge. The rider of the motorcycle, a 48-year-old Kippa-ring man, died at the scene. […]
On the lead up to starting my journey at the Queensland Police Service Academy (QPSA), I always thought that I was going to commute. As I lived an hour away, I didn’t think that living in was an option for me, I just assumed that rooms at the academy were allocated for people that were […]
A man has been charged following an alleged armed assault at a residence in Norman Gardens this morning. It will be alleged around 8.30am a 53-year-old Norman Gardens man attended a Smithwick Street address and a short time later another man arrived in a vehicle armed with a metal bar. The man then allegedly hit […]
Police in Townsville would like to remind members of the public of the seriousness of making a false complaint to police following a report that was received last night. Around 8.15pm, police were called to an address in Kirwan following reports a man had been attacked by a vigilante group of men with knives […]
As part of Operation Oscar Quantum, police have located three clandestine laboratories and a large scale weapons production facility, including four fully automatic sub machine guns, silencers and drugs during Gold Coast raids. On Friday officers from the Drug and Serious Crime Group with assistance from Taskforce Maxima and Gold Coast police and the Australian […]
As part of ongoing efforts to target the production and supply of dangerous drugs by OMCG members on the Gold Coast, detectives from Taskforce Maxima yesterday charged a Finks OMCG associate with drug offences. Officers from Taskforce Maxima executed a search warrant on a Wahroonga Avenue apartment yesterday morning and located two men. Following a […]