Police responded to further complaints of hooning at Teewah beach over the weekend, including a makeshift drag strip which had been set up at low tide for vehicles to conduct burn outs. Officers attending on Saturday morning located witches’ hats and glow sticks which formed a course for motorists to speed through, along with alcohol […]
A crime scene has been declared at Hamilton following the discovery of a body this afternoon. Police had cause to attend the address, an apartment complex on Parkside Circuit shortly before 4pm. An investigation centre has been established at Hendra Police station. A 26-year-old man, currently in New South Wales is assisting detectives with enquiries. […]
Police have charged two men following a break and enter at Castle Hill overnight. Around 1.30am this morning, police were called to a Glamis Court address to a report of a break and enter. Multiple police crews attended the scene including Townsville’s newest Police Dog Uzi. It is only PD Uzi’s second week on the […]
Detectives have charged a man who allegedly touched and photographed women in Toowoomba without their knowledge earlier this year. It will be alleged between November 2020 and February this year, the at the time Toowoomba-based anaesthetist, inappropriately touched three women aged in their 20s while they were unconscious. A 59-year-old Mount Ommaney man has been […]
Far North District detectives are renewing a public appeal for information relating to the suspicious disappearance of Mossman woman Joanne Butterfield who went missing in North Queensland over two decades ago. Joanne, aged 37 at the time of her disappearance, was last seen around 8pm on Thursday, June 25, 1998, leaving a house in Mowbray […]
Officers from Taskforce Sierra Linnet and the Road Policing Command’s Heavy Vehicle Enforcement Team joined local police and the Department of Transport and Main Roads across the weekend in three border highway locations targeting heavy vehicles and freight compliance. State Disaster Coordinator, Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said he was concerned by the low level of […]
Police have revoked an emergency declaration under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) following a gas leak at a water treatment plant at Joyner yesterday afternoon (Sunday, July 18). Police had established a 250 metre exclusion zone around the facility just before 4pm in the interests of public safety. The declared zone is now open. […]
A 60-year-old El Arish woman died this morning in a single vehicle crash on the Bruce Highway, near Bowen. Preliminary information indicates the vehicle the woman was driving was travelling south when it left the highway around 10.30am crashing into a gully. The woman, the sole occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced deceased at the […]
Police are continuing to seek public assistance to locate a 12-year-old boy reported missing from Gympie on July 13. He was last seen on Mary Street, Gympie at 4am, July 15 wearing a black cap, black shirt, black pants and black shoes, which was captured on CCTV. New information suggests the boy travelled from Gympie […]
Logan Police have intercepted more than 375 drivers during an overnight traffic operation as part of ongoing road safety strategies for locally run Operation Own It. From 4.30pm until 10.30pm on Friday, July 16, an operation targeting drink driving was held in Waterford involving 25 officers. Throughout the operation, a total of: 375 roadside breath […]