Police are investigating the attempted armed robbery of a taxi driver at Warwick this evening. At 7.30pm the taxi driver picked up a passenger outside a shopping centre on Grafton Street who asked to be taken to a park on Park Road. On arrival of the destination, the passenger produced a knife and demanded money […]
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Police have charged a woman after an alleged assault and attempted robbery in Rockhampton on Monday. Around 7.15pm a 48-year-old woman was sitting in a car on Campbell Street when a female offender allegedly opened her door, pulled her from the vehicle and assaulted her with a chisel tool. A 48-year-old woman suffered non-life threatening […]
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Overnight on Saturday July 23, a dinosaur escaped from the Eatons Hill Vets on South Pine Road at Brendale. The dinosaur is believed to have at least one accomplice to help it down from its usual position above the eight metre high main gate. The dinosaur is described as a grey and black, 1.5 meter high, fibre glass Raptor […]
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Commissioner Ian Stewart today announced the appointment of Peter Martin APM to the role of Deputy Commissioner, Regional Operations. Mr Martin is currently Assistant Commissioner for Organisational Capability Command, a position he assumed in October 2015. He will take up the Deputy Commissioner’s position on Monday. Commissioner Stewart said Mr Martin would bring a wealth […]
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Police have charged a woman with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death after investigations into a fatal traffic crash in Kabra last month. The crash took place around 3.40pm on Tuesday, June 17 along Four Mile Road where it will be alleged the woman was looking at her mobile phone when her vehicle […]
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Taskforce Maxima detectives have charged a 27-year-old man with drug offences after officers allegedly uncovered dangerous drugs and cash in a Surfers Paradise apartment this morning. Police investigating links to the Nomads OMCG, executed a search warrant at the Ferny Avenue complex where they seized a quantity of GHB, pipes, scales, documents relating to the […]
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A man is in critical condition in Gold Coast University Hospital after he was seriously injured when his race bike struck a bush turkey at Currumbin Valley early this morning. Around 6.20am the 45-year-old male rider was travelling downhill, west along Tomewin Mountain Road, when he collided with the bird. The man was thrown from […]
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Detectives from the Coomera Criminal Investigation Branch have seized drugs and weapons during an ongoing operation targeting property offenders in the northern end of the Gold Coast. This morning police executed a search warrant at an address in Haase Court at Ormeau where two firearms including a home-made firearm, a substantial quantity of methamphetamine and […]
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A couple reported missing in Cape York yesterday have been located safe and well. Police would like to thank the media and public for their assistance.
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Twelve months on, today marks the first anniversary of the Deighton Street explosion that claimed the lives of Nyobi, River and Charlie Hinder. The explosion on the morning of Tuesday July 28, 2015 was a tragic loss of life that deeply affected the family, close friends and the Mount Isa Community as a whole. Police […]
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