On Tuesday, November 19, Acting Deputy Commissioner Brian Codd joined local officers for community members for the official opening of the Upper Ross Police facility. Construction started for the new facility’s development in January this year, following project planning to establish a new policing facility in early 2017 as a result of reviewing district capability […]
Police have charged four women over the alleged theft of a number of piglets from a Pittsworth piggery on November 10. As part of the investigation, officers from the Major and Organised Crime Squad (Rural) and Firearms and Cannabis Team executed search warrants in Banyo, Margate and Currumbin Waters yesterday. Two of the piglets were […]
Update: The 59-year-old man reported missing has now been located safe and well. Police are appealing for assistance in locating a 59-year-old Charters Towers man reported missing on the weekend. The man was last seen at The Strand in Townsville at 6:30pm on Sunday. He is described as Caucasian, around 170cm tall, of heavy build […]
Police have charged a man after allegedly uncovering a significant quantity of dangerous drugs at a Varsity Lakes unit. Around 12.30am on Monday November 18, officers executed a search warrant on Varsity Parade, where they allegedly located cocaine, MDMA, steroids, illegal prescription medication and $6,850 cash. The occupant was not home at the time. Subsequent […]
It was a busy night in Surfers Paradise last night with a large crowd descending on the entertainment precinct for day six of schoolies on the Gold Coast. Despite the large crowd there were only six schoolies charged on eight offences overnight, mainly relating to drug and public nuisance offences. Of the schoolies arrested; five […]
Gympie detectives continue to investigate after a man drove from Gympie to Sippy Downs this afternoon in an alleged attempt to avoid police. Around 1.15pm Wednesday, November 20 police attended a Rocks Road, Gympie address to execute a warrant. It will be alleged the man fled in a dark coloured sedan baring false number plates. This […]
Townsville detectives have charged a man with seven offences, including attempted murder, after three people were injured at Rangewood this morning, including a 40-year-old woman who sustained a gunshot wound to the side of her head. A 47-year-old Alice River man was arrested at the Gibralta Road house and has now been charged with attempted […]
Detectives from the Moreton region are appealing for public assistance after a 52-year-old woman was shot at her Morayfield home on Wednesday November six. Just after 10pm six people were seen attending the Hargrave Street address in two vehicles. The woman was at home with her two children at the time. She was transported to […]
Officers investigating the fatal traffic crash which occurred in Callemondah (Gladstone) on Sunday, August 25 are appealing for witnesses. Preliminary information indicates that around 6.45pm to 7.05pm a 58-year-old man was hit by a vehicle on Red Rover Road, Callemondah. The man suffered fatal injuries. CCTV from the area shows a white 4wd station wagon […]
Police are investigating the break and enter of a convenience store on Murilla Street today (November 20) at Miles. Around 12:08am, four people broke into the store by smashing the front door and have then stole approximately $50,000 worth of cigarettes and left in a stolen vehicle. CCTV footage shows three men and a woman […]