Police would like to remind Gold Coast residents to be wary of an ongoing scam whereby an unsolicited man doorknocks suburbs and convinces residents that he must paint their gutter, under the false pretence of assisting emergency services. This morning (Thursday April 22), police were contacted by several residents of an Elanora housing-estate reporting that […]
A 43-year-old female staff member from the Organisational Capability Command has been charged with four counts of computer hacking and misuse and one count of misconduct in public office. The staff member remains suspended from the Queensland Police Service. She is due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday, June 3. In keeping […]
Police are appealing to the public for dash-camera footage as part of their investigation into a fatal traffic crash at Woodhill this morning. Around 11.20am, a man riding a motorcycle was travelling southbound along the Mount Lindesay Highway. Initial investigations indicate that the motorcycle travelled onto the wrong side of the road where it collided […]
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fire at a Kingston Road business overnight. Police and emergency services were called to attend the Slacks Creek address to find the building well alight shortly after 9 pm. No person was harmed, however, several animals in a pet store next door were unable to be saved. Police […]
Police have located a 15-year-old girl, reported missing from a Mackay address yesterday.
A joint Queensland Police, Australian Border Force (ABF) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigation has resulted in the arrest of a Robina (Queensland) man, charged in connection with attempting to import a kilogram of heroin into Queensland. Officers from the ABF, in Sydney had recently detected the heroin which had been sent through the international […]
Police have charged a man who allegedly confronted a woman walking through Noosa Heads on April 18 and attempted to sexually assault her. It will be alleged the 34-year-old local woman was walking down a thoroughfare between Noosa Parade and Hastings Street around 5.20am, when a man not known to her exited a vehicle and […]
A 35-year-old man passed away following single-vehicle traffic crash Campaspe overnight. At around 11.20pm, travelling on the Flinders Highway about 10 kilometres west of Balfe’s Creek, the driver and sole occupant has left the roadway in a ute and overturned. The Ayr man died as a result of his injuries. The Forensic Crash Unit is […]
A 51-year-old Wynnum man has received a hefty fine and a licence suspension after he was allegedly caught riding a motorbike almost 100 kilometres per hour over the limit in the Somerset region recently. Around 9am on April 10, a Road Policing officer detected the motorcyclist travelling 170 kilometres per hour in an 80 zone […]
Gold Coast detectives this evening charged a 34-year-old New Beith man with murder and breaching a domestic violence order. The man, who remains under police guard in hospital, will have the charges presented to the Southport Magistrates Court tomorrow in his absence. Formal identification continues after the body of a woman was located at a […]