Police investigating a series of linked robberies, car thefts and violent incidents in Townsville over the past week have so far charged three people with over 100 offences. Around 8.20am on Friday, police intercepted an allegedly stolen 2010 Holden Commodore in Kirwan and four people were taken into custody. As a result of investigations, a […]
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Police are asking people to be vigilant in the Teneriffe area after a dog ingested poison yesterday. A woman attended the Fortitude Valley Police Station yesterday and reported to she had been walking in Teneriffe Park with her dog. The dog appeared to have something in its mouth and the woman then pulled a half-eaten […]
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With hot, dry and windy conditions across Southern Queensland again today, police and firefighters are reminding the community to responsibly extinguish cigarette butts. Yesterday afternoon, a man and a woman allegedly failed to properly put out the cigarette butts that they had discarded in bushland near Atkinsons Dam. The cigarette butts caused a large grass […]
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On Friday September 22, police from the Woodridge Police Beat attended the Daisy Hill Koala Centre. September is the official ‘Save the Koala Month’. A campaign designed to raise awareness and funds to help protect the koalas. While at the Daisy Hill Koala Centre, we got to meet ‘Pound’, the only male koala currently at […]
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Police have charged two men following the alleged assaults of three people in Noosa on Saturday. It will be alleged around 9pm two men were walking on Hasting Street pushing other people and hitting cars as they walked down the street. They pushed one man to the ground and one of the men jumped on […]
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An emergency situation under the Public Safety Preservation Act in Virginia has been revoked following a large factory fire this afternoon. Initial inquiries suggest around 3.30pm police and emergency services attended a large fire that had broken out in an industrial building on Pritchard Road. An emergency situation was declared and an exclusion zone was […]
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A person has died following a single vehicle traffic crash in Bouldercombe this afternoon. Initial information suggests at 5.30pm, a vehicle was travelling west on the Burnett Highway when it crossed the road and crashed into a tree three kilometres west of the Bruce Highway intersection. One of the passengers sustained severe injuries and was […]
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Police have declared a crime scene at the site of a large factory fire that occurred in Virginia this afternoon. Initial inquiries suggest around 3.30pm police and emergency services attended a large fire that had broken out in an industrial building on Pritchard Road. Upon arrival the building was found to be well alight. A […]
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Townsville police have charged a 16 year-old Kirwan boy with grievous bodily harm following the alleged stabbing of a 15-year-old girl in North Ward in the early hours of this morning. It will be alleged the 16-year-old was at a residence on The Strand when he has allegedly stabbed the girl a number of times […]
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A 19-year-old man has been charged with wounding and two other offences following a disturbance at a residence in Townsville in the early hours of this morning. Police will allege the 19-year-old Townsville man has allegedly returned to a residence in Aplin Street around 1am and has become involved in an argument with a 38-year-old […]
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