Detectives from the Brisbane City Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) have disrupted a significant drug trafficking operation by arresting 20 people on 303 charges, including seven people with trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine. Cash, drugs and property in excess of $1 million has also been seized as part of Operation Sierra Virtuous, which ran over a 12-month […]
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As part of Logan District’s ongoing operation aimed at unsafe driving behaviour, police ran a two-night operation on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 February. Officers conducted 913 random breath tests, with four motorists charged for drink driving offences. Police also issued 10 traffic infringement notices (TINs) for offences including driving a defective vehicle, driving with […]
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Police have charged a teenage boy following an armed robbery in Cranbrook yesterday afternoon. Around 4pm, police will allege a teenage male approached a 55-year-old woman in the carpark of a Ross River Road medical centre as she returned to her parked vehicle. The male allegedly assaulted the woman before entering her car, starting it […]
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A woman and a man are assisting police with their inquiries following an incident in Cranbrook this afternoon. Police will allege that a man approached a 55-year-old woman the carpark of a Ross River Road medical centre as she returned to her parked vehicle. The man allegedly assaulted the woman before entering her car, starting […]
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Police have revoked an emergency declaration under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) at 5.10pm. The declaration was made at 3.23pm when a chemical located at the Bilinga home this afternoon was deemed unstable. The chemical was rendered safe through a series of controlled exlposions. Police would like to thank the local residents for their […]
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UPDATE: The woman has been located safe. Police are looking for a 26-year-old woman who went missing overnight in the Hervey Bay area. The woman was last seen leaving a medical facility in Urraween around 5.45pm yesterday (March 3) and has not been heard from since. Police hold concern for her welfare as she suffers […]
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Commissioner Katarina Carroll has today announced the appointment of Debbie Platz as an assistant commissioner of the Queensland Police Service (QPS). Assistant Commissioner Platz is a former member of the QPS and more recently an assistant commissioner with the Australian Federal Police. Following the recent appointments, Commissioner Carroll also announced the placement and rotation of […]
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An 80-year-old man from The Gap has died in a four-vehicle traffic crash in Murarrie this morning. At 10.45am, the man’s car, a Hyundai Accent and a Prime Mover collided at the intersection of Lytton Road and Creek Road. The force of the collision pushed the man’s car into two other vehicles, a Toyota Yaris […]
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Police have charged a man in relation to an emergency declaration made under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) in Garbutt on February 25. Around 10am last Thursday, police were called to an address in Clarke Street following reports of an armed man making threats. Officers attended the scene and established a cordon of the […]
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Update: The driver of the vehicle involved has been located. Police are appealing for the driver of a ute to come forward after unsecure solar panels narrowly missed another motorist travelling on the Gateway Motorway this morning. A dark coloured ute towing a box trailer was heading south when the panels came loose at Bracken […]
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