Yesterday, officers from the Gold Coast Major and Organised Crime Squad executed a search warrant at a Hope Island address, locating and seizing a handgun, knuckledusters and a small quantity of a restricted drug namely Melanotan. Police arrested a 29-year-old male for unlawfully possessing weapons, possessing a restricted drug and contravening an order about information […]
A man has died in a single vehicle crash south of Lakeland. The man was driving from Cooktown to Cairns in the early hours of Thursday morning, September 26. About 2km south of the Byrestown Range rest area the vehicle has left the road on a bend and gone into a gully. Preliminary investigations indicate […]
Police have charged two people after an attempted robbery with violence in North Ipswich this afternoon. At around 2.50pm a woman was sitting in her car in the carpark of a shopping centre on The Terrace when, it will be alleged, a man and a woman approached the vehicle and demanded her keys. Police will […]
Police have charged two people following investigations into the armed robbery of a bank at Burleigh Waters on September 26. Around 3pm, police were notified of an armed robbery at a bank, located in a shopping complex on West Burleigh Road. It will be alleged a man and a woman attended the front counter, produced […]
A man has died after the motorcycle he was riding crashed at Stratford in Cairns this afternoon. Preliminary investigations indicate at around 12.30pm a motorcycle was travelling north on the Captain Cook Highway when it hit a guardrail of the Barron River Bridge and travelled down an embankment. Emergency services attended and a 22-year-old Gordonvale […]
A 30-year-old man has died following a single vehicle crash approximately 60km south of Burketown overnight. The man was travelling in a Toyota Hilux along Wills Developmental Road after 7:30pm when the driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed. The 20-year-old male driver of the vehicle suffered minor injuries. Investigations into the cause of […]
Police have charged a man with attempted murder following an assault on Admiralty Island in Cairns this morning. It will be alleged at around 6am two men, who are known to each other, became involved in a physical dispute on a boat moored at Admiralty Island. Police will further allege during the dispute a 64-year-old […]
UPDATE: The missing girl has been located safe and well. Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a 16-year-old girl reported missing in the Ipswich area since early this morning. The girl was last seen leaving an address on Essex Street, Karalee around 3am however has not been heard from since. Police and family […]
Police are investigating the armed robbery of a drive-thru bottle shop in Inala overnight. At around 8:45pm, a man armed with a small axe entered the business on Freeman Road and demanded money from two staff members. The man then stole a sum of cash before fleeing the scene in a dark-coloured hatchback. No one […]
A 36-year-old man reported missing from Ayr has been located safe and well. Police would like to thank the media and the public for their assistance.