A man has been charged in relation to a series of suspicious fires at Highgate Hill overnight. At around 9.30pm on August 12, emergency services were called to attend an address on Franklin Street following reports of a house fire. The blaze was extinguished, however a short time later police were called to another fire […]
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A 55-year-old Thornlands man has been charged this morning following the closure of a protracted investigation into a $10million fraud. The man was charged by detectives from the State Crime Command’s Financial and Cyber Crime Group. It is alleged the man defrauded his employer, a Logan-based civil engineering business, over a ten-year period, between 2007 […]
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Police are investigating the cause of a crash at Karalee earlier today where a man died. Just after 3.30am this morning, a blue Mazda 3 was travelling along the Warrego Highway when it crashed into a concrete pylon. A 23-year-old Brassall man, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, died as a result of […]
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Picture this: A young woman arrives at the train station. She is running late and in a rush to catch the next train – something most of us will have experienced. She tries to hurry on to the platform, but finds the pedestrian gate locked. Instead of waiting at the gate, she walks back around […]
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A 25-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly escaped mandatory hotel quarantine as part of COVID-19 border restrictions in Toowoomba. The Glenvale man allegedly left the hotel premises on the ninth day of his 14-day quarantine, in breach of his obligations under the Public Health Act. He returned to the hotel yesterday where he […]
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Police are investigating the break and enter of a shopping centre at Helensvale in the early hours of this morning. Around 4.25am a dark coloured sedan was driven through the entry doors of the Milaroo Drive shopping centre. The vehicle was then driven through the shopping centre and again used to ram into a jewellery […]
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Police are appealing for witnesses following a series of suspicious fires at Highgate Hill overnight. At around 9.30pm, emergency services were called to attend an address on Franklin Street following reports of a house fire. The blaze was extinguished, however a short time later police were called to another fire at a home on the […]
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Police are investigating after a man died in a traffic crash at Kewarra Beach this afternoon. Preliminary investigations indicate around 3.10pm, a Mazda sedan was heading south along the Captain Cook Highway when it left the roadway and rolled into a ditch. The driver and sole occupant of the vehicle, a 29-year-old Bayview Heights man, […]
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The Queensland Police Service Railway Squad is reminding everyone to be responsible and safe around the state’s rail network. This week is Rail Safety Week, an annual community awareness project across Australia and New Zealand designed to heighten the importance of rail safety in the community. Rail Safety Week finishes on August 16, but police […]
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Three men have been charged in relation to two alleged robberies In Gladstone last week. Around 5am last Tuesday, two men where being driven around Gladstone by a man known to them. The driver, a 32-year-old man, was allegedly assaulted before they stole the man’s keys and car. Around 11am the same day, the two […]
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