Police have charged a man following the armed robbery of a Woodridge bottle shop yesterday. It will be alleged that around 5.10pm, a man entered the Station Road store armed with a knife, threatened a male and female staff member and fled the store with a sum of cash. No one was physically injured during […]
Charters Towers detectives are investigating a house fire that occurred overnight in Queenton. At around 3am this morning police and emergency services were called to a house fire on Bevan Street. Fire services extinguished the fire which caused extensive damage to the house. The house was unoccupied at the time and no one was injured. […]
A security guard has sustained non-life threatening head injuries, following an assault that occurred this morning at Southport. It will be alleged that the security guard asked a man to leave a light rail vehicle that had stopped at the Gold Coast University Hospital. The man allegedly refused to comply with the security guard’s directions […]
A 26-year-old Greenbank man has passed away as a result of injuries he sustained following an incident last night at Tennyson. Preliminary investigations suggest around 8.30pm, two men entered the rail shunting yards on Lofter Street and attempted to graffiti rolling stock. It is believed that the man suffered an electric shock after climbing part […]
Police are investigating an incident in which a man was assaulted in Koongalba Street, Yandina, last night. Around 1.30am a man in a white vehicle stopped in front of a Koongalba Street address and threw what is believed to have been a molotov cocktail, which failed to ignite, towards the dwelling. A man confronted the […]
This weekend, officers from the Road Policing Command and the Department of Transport and Main Roads conducted a joint traffic operation on the Pacific Motorway at Springwood. The overnight activities of Operation Mike Mentor commenced at midnight on Friday and closed this morning at 4am and was aimed at targeting drink or drug affected drivers, as […]
Police are investigating following the armed robbery of a pizza delivery driver at Cypress Street, Kuluin last night. Around 10.30pm, the delivery driver was approached by a man, carrying what is believed to have been a small axe, demanding the driver handover the contents of his delivery. The pizza delivery driver complied with the man […]
Police are investigating after a traffic crash in Gladstone last night. Preliminary information suggest around 9.05pm police allegedly detected a motorcycle travelling west at 131 kilometres an hour in a 80 kilometre along Kirkwood Road. Police attempted to intercept the motorcycle, however it allegedly accelerated away from police who lost sight of it. A short […]
Police are investigating after a man suffered an electric shock at a railway yard at Tennyson earlier tonight. Preliminary investigations suggest around 8.30pm, two men entered the rail shunting yards on Lofter Street and attempted to graffiti rolling stock. It is believed as a 26-year-old Greenbank man scaled a container car, he raised his hands […]
Police are investigating following the armed robbery of a restaurant at a shopping complex on Cotlew Street in Ashmore tonight. Around 8.15pm, two staff members were leaving the restaurant to make deliveries when they were approached by a man who threatened them with a knife, demanding cash. The staff members complied, and the man fled […]