Around 1:15pm police lifted the emergency declaration under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) put in place at 11:30am today in relation to a gas leak in Cairns. Please be advised that the Cairns CBD gas leak situation has now been successfully resolved. Residents can return home and are thanked for their patience.
Police have arrested and charged 35 people on 160 drug and firearm charges as part of an operation targeting the supply and distribution of methylamphetamine (ice) in the Toowoomba region. Commencing in mid-2019, the combined operations involving local police and State Crime Command investigators, culminated in 36 search warrants being issued at properties across Toowoomba […]
A man and woman reported missing after they were last seen with a car in flood waters near Nanango last night have been located safe and well. Police would like to thank the public for their assistance. Two people were reported missing after witnesses allegedly saw them pushing a vehicle in flood waters on the […]
This Safer Internet Day, investigators from the State Crime Command’s specialist units dedicated to combating cybercrime are calling on parents and young people to help in the fight against cybercrimes by staying alert to online risks. In a video launched today, Detective Constable Beti Surman from the Financial and Cyber Crime Group and Detective Inspector […]
Police are investigating a robbery at shop in Kirwan yesterday afternoon. Around 3.05pm, three women entered a liquor store on Bamford Lane, selected some products and attempted to leave without paying. When the male attendant confronted the women, one of them produced a weapon and threatened him. The three women fled towards Joyce Street. Investigators […]
Police are investigating a three-vehicle crash in Woodstock yesterday afternoon. Around 2.30pm on the Flinders Highway, a car travelling south collided with a truck and then collided with another truck. The driver of the car, a 64-year-old woman from Charters Towers, was transported by helicopter to Townsville University Hospital in a critical condition. The truck […]
Unfortunately during today’s search police have located the 33-year-old man reported missing on Mornington Island deceased. His death is not being treated as suspicious and police will prepare a report for the Coroner. Police would like to thank members of the public for their assistance throughout the search. Previous media release: A search is being […]
A man has been charged over the serious assault of a man at an Upper Coomera gym last week. Yesterday, officers from the Gold Coast Major and Organised Crime Squad executed a search warrant at an Upper Coomera residence locating and arresting a 24-year-old man wanted in connection with the unprovoked assault of a 20 […]
Sunshine Coast police have charged a 21-year-old man for a range of offences including for two attempted robberies at Nambour last month. Around 4pm on January 25, the 21-year-old man allegedly approached another man in a carpark of a Nambour shopping centre and threatened him, asking him for the keys to his car. The victim […]
A 23-year-old Beenleigh man will today face 42 charges after being arrested by Sunshine Coast detectives on Friday, February 7. Around 5am on January 14, a 41-year-old woman was reversing a car out of her residence on Newry Road at Mountain Creek when the man allegedly approached her, threatened her with a gun and stole […]