Police have charged an 18-year-old man over an incident in Yarrabilba last week where a 33-year-old man received a stab wound. It is alleged around 8:30pm on September 23 a man and woman were driving in their car and were allegedly followed by unknown people in a white Holden Commodore. Upon turning into Darlington Drive, […]
Detectives investigating the death of 53-year-old David Collin in Maroochydore on September 9 have located another potential key witness in his murder case they wish to identify. Mr Collin was attacked as he slept in his sleeping bag at the rear of a community centre on Millwell Road East and located deceased the next morning […]
Four people have been charged for alleged protest activity on Victoria Bridge this morning. Around 7:45am, it will be alleged a woman attached herself to a large tripod causing a closure of the bridge for about an hour. Police will allege the woman initially refused to lower herself from the structure. She was taken into […]
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 […]