Police have charged a 51-year-old man over the alleged sexual assault of a woman and wilful damage of a taxi at Palm Beach on Sunday August 25. Shortly before 4.00am, a taxi-driver picked up a 20-year-old Palm Beach woman from an establishment at Broadbeach. A man approached the vehicle and asked if they were headed […]
Police are investigating after fire destroyed part of a school at Southport this morning. Emergency services were called to an educational facility on Smith Street around 2.20am, where they located one of the buildings fully ablaze. The fire was brought under control, however the school-block sustained extensive damage. At this stage the cause of the […]
Police are investigating after a man died in a traffic crash at Peregian Beach this morning. Preliminary investigations indicate that around midnight a Commodore sedan towing a box trailer lost control as it travelled along David Low Way and struck a tree. The driver and sole occupant of the vehicle, a 29-year-old man from Peregian […]
Detectives have charged a man with murder after an alleged stabbing in Innisfail overnight. It will be alleged around 6pm a man attended a unit on Edith Street and became involved in a verbal altercation with a 32-year-old man known to him. It is further alleged the altercation turned physical and the 32-year-old man was […]
Today Forensic Crash Unit officers have served a man with a notice to appear following the investigation of a fatal crash that occurred at Mount Tarampa on October 8, 2018. It will be alleged about 4.20 pm on October 8, a Toyota Hiace was travelling east on Mount Tarampa Road when it has collided with […]
A 26-year-old female constable from Central Region has been stood down from the Queensland Police Service. The officer was issued a Notice to Appear in relation to computer hacking, pursuant to section 408E of the Criminal Code and is due to appear in the Mackay Magistrates Court on October 14. In keeping with our commitment […]
A 52-year-old male constable from the Northern Region has been stood down from the Queensland Police Service. The officer is subject of an investigation into allegations of workplace harassment. In keeping with our commitment to high standards of behaviour, transparency and accountability, we have undertaken to inform the public when an officer faces serious allegations […]
Police are investigating a traffic crash which occurred in Yungaburra earlier today. Shortly after 12:45pm, a semi-trailer travelling along Gillies Range Road carrying a crane, overturned. The driver was not injured and was able to exit the truck. Recovery of the semi-trailer and crane will commence tomorrow morning, October 3, from 9am for approximately 5-6 […]
Today, officers from the Gold Coast Major and Organised Crime Squad and Taskforce Maxima executed a search warrant at a Southport address, locating and seizing six firearms, a silencer, ammunition and Rebels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang clothing buried in the back yard. Police also located steroids, cannabis and Mongrel Mob colours and associated clothing. Police arrested […]
Police have sadly located a body, believed to be the man reported missing in the Cascade Gorge area yesterday. The man and his friends were swimming in the gorge yesterday afternoon. Police were called to the watering hole about 4:30pm when his friends noticed he was missing. Police, divers and SES personnel conducted a search […]