Mackay detectives have charged a 38-year-old local man with armed robbery following investigations into two recent robberies of Mackay supermarkets. Police will allege that around 6pm on July 24 a man armed with a knife stole cash from a Napier Street supermarket. A man armed with a knife then allegedly stole cash from a Juliette […]
Police are warning members of the public to be vigilant after receiving reports of a scam targeting elderly residents on the Northside of Brisbane. People, posing as tradesmen, approach residents and offer to conduct urgent repairs and or remove possums from victim’s home. The urgency of the repairs is stressed with residents- who are aged […]
Overnight, detectives from Task Force Maxima and State Crime Command investigating illegal drug supply by members of the Hells Angels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMCG) executed search warrants in Robina and Bundall. Police executed the warrants at an address on Pehaligon Way in Robina and storage sheds in Racecourse Drive and Slayter Avenue in Bundall. The […]
A 16-year old boy faces serious offences after he came to police attention at Palm Beach in the early hours of this morning. Around 3.30am police conducting proactive patrols intercepted a black Commodore which was observed acting suspiciously at Townson Avenue. The driver of the vehicle was a boy and a subsequent emergent search of […]
Officers from the Townsville Tactical Crime Squad- targeting drug transportation into and around Townsville- have closed a four day multi-agency operation which resulted in 10 people being charged with 23 offences. Operation Iscariot was conducted from Wednesday July 29 to Saturday August 1 with police targeting areas where freight and people enter Townsville, via routes […]
A third man has been charged in relation to the theft of Piggie the echidna from an enclosure at a Currumbin animal sanctuary on Saturday, August 1. Piggie was recovered safe and well Monday evening after she was left under a fence at the sanctuary. A 20-year-old Surfers Paradise man has been charged with enter […]
Three men have been charged after investigations into an alleged armed robbery and assault in Bundaberg on Monday. Around 9.15pm a group of men and women were walking along Johnston street when three men allegedly approached them and made demands for money and property. The men allegedly threatened the group with a gun before physically […]
Police have charged a 16-year-old boy following investigations into an alleged robbery with violence at the Botanical Gardens Brisbane City on Monday. It will be alleged that just before 7pm a man was approached by two unknown males asking for money. When the man failed to comply with their demands the two males allegedly assaulted […]
Police have charged a boy after a series of incidents in Upper Lockyer yesterday. It will be alleged that around 2.40pm a stolen vehicle containing four male juveniles rolled on McDonald Road. A 36-year-old man stopped at the scene of the crash to render assistance when the male driver allegedly presented a replica firearm, stole […]
A second man has been charged in connection to the theft of an echidna from an enclosure at a Currumbin sanctuary on August 1, 2015. Piggie the echidna was recovered safe and well last night after she was left under a fence at the sanctuary. A 25-year-old Tugun man has been charged with receiving tainted […]