As Gold Coast Schoolies Week 2013 nears an end, police have continued proactive patrols overnight to keep school leavers safe. Overnight, 20 schoolies were arrested on 20 charges – mainly for public nuisance and street offences. Of those schoolies arrested overnight, 18 were male and two were female. There was also 11 schoolies issued with […]
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Police are investigating an armed robbery at a convenience store in Enoggera last night. At 11.30pm, a man entered the Wardell Street business armed with a firearm and made demands for money from the male attendant. The man left the scene with a sum of cash. No-one was physically injured. Investigations are continuing. If you […]
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Police are investigating the armed robbery of a woman at Robina last night. At 8.50pm, a 26-year-old woman was walking along University Drive when she was approached by three men. One man produced a firearm and demanded she hand over her bags. The trio left the scene with the woman’s laptop and mobile phone, and […]
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Police are investigating after a convenience store was robbed at Heathwood earlier this evening. At around 8pm, a man entered the Parkwood Drive store and made a purchase before leaving. He then returned to the store, produced a knife and stole a sum of cash. The female staff member was not physically injured. The man […]
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A pedestrian has died in a single vehicle traffic crash in Nome this evening. Initial information suggests at 9pm, an incident occurred involving a car and pedestrian on the Bruce Highway southbound. The female pedestrian died at the scene. The female driver and sole occupant of the car was taken to Townsville Hospital for observation. […]
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Police are investigating an attempted armed robbery of a 28-year-old woman at Broadbeach this morning. At around 1.00am, a man, armed with a silver pistol, approached the woman from behind whilst she was with two other women at the intersection of Chelsea Avenue and Surf Parade. He attempted to pull the woman’s handbag from her […]
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Police are investigating a serious two vehicle crash that occurred on Gladstone Benaraby Road, Gladstone this morning. Preliminary investigations suggest a car and a truck collided head-on at around 8.30am. The driver and passenger of the car, both women believed to be in their 50s, were entrapped in the vehicle for a short time. The […]
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A 30-year-old Deception Bay man is due to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court today charged with stealing and serious assault police after officers attended Coolangatta last night following reports of someone breaking into a vehicle on Marine Parade. Police attended around 9.30pm and it will be alleged a man fled on foot eventually running […]
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Police are looking for a man who assaulted a 65-year-old man in the backyard of a Greenbank home last night. Preliminary information suggests the man walked into the backyard of a Crest Road residence around 9.15pm when without warning he was struck about the head and body with a baseball bat. The offender ran off […]
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Police are investigating after a home and a vehicle were destroyed by fire in Innisfail early this morning. Around 12.30am, police were called after reports a van parked in the car port of a Laurie Street home was alight. The van was destroyed, and the fire spread to the home, which was also completely destroyed. […]
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