Police have made further arrests as part of investigations into rioting offences in Aurukun on New Year’s Day. During the incidents, six houses were set on fire and two other houses were extensively damaged. Investigators have now charged a total of 29 people with 120 offences. Those arrested are due to appear in the Aurukun […]
Detectives have charged seven people today as part of the culmination of Operation Metro; a three-month proactive effort targeting members and associates of the Hells Angels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. Around 6.00am, detectives from the Major and Organised Crime Squad and Logan District executed five simultaneous raids at Springwood, Ormeau, Marsden, Parkinson and Daisy Hill, where […]
Police investigating the armed robbery of a service station this morning at Beachmere have charged a man. It will be alleged around 6:10am a man drove a white vehicle onto the forecourt of Beachmere Road service station. The man walked into the shop, took a packet of prawns from the bait freezers and approached the […]
Police are investigating the armed robbery of a take away shop this morning at Gympie. Around 5:15am two men entered the shop on Horseshoe Bend, one armed with a metal baton, went behind the counter. The men have then threatened a 61-year-old female staff with the metal baton, demanding money and cigarettes, before they left […]
Police are appealing for assistance after a motorcyclist was hit by a car in Rocklea this morning. Around 8:30am officers were called to the inbound side of the Ipswich Motorway following reports a white utility had struck a motorbike and left the scene. A black Triumph motorcycle was travelling inbound on the motorway between the […]
Detectives are investigating the cause of a building fire in the Whitsundays this morning. Police were called to an industrial business at the corner of Sugar Mill and Main streets in Proserpine around 3am where a building on the premises was found well involved. Initial investigations suggest unknown offenders have attended the address around midnight […]
Detectives are appealing for public assistance following the robbery of a 24-year-old man in Forest Lake last night. At 8.30pm the man was waiting at a bus stop when he was approached by five people. The group engaged the man in conversation before circling him and assaulting him until he fell to the ground. The […]