Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate 36-year-old man from Runaway Bay, who was last seen in the Northern Territory in May. The man was last seen on May 17 travelling on the Barkly Highway in the vicinity of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory heading towards Queensland, possibly Mount Isa, in a maroon 2012 […]
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Police have charged a 33-year-old Mountain Creek man with drugs and weapons offences after intercepting him on the Gatton-Esk Road at Adare yesterday. Officers searched the man’s car and trailer at about 12pm and found items allegedly used for drug production inside cardboard boxes. The vehicle and trailer were taken to Gatton Police Station where […]
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A 16-year-old boy has been charged following a traffic incident in Townsville overnight. It will be alleged that at 8.50pm, patrolling police observed a stolen sedan travelling at high speed outbound on Gulliver Street. It is believed the driver attempted to turn onto Ross River Road before he lost control and struck some posts outside […]
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Police are continuing to investigate a traffic incident in which a 66-year-old male pedestrian died at Acacia Ridge last night. Initial information suggests around 5.45pm the man attempted to cross Beaudesert Road at the intersection of Hellawell Road when he was struck by a vehicle travelling in the inbound lane. The 66-year-old Algester man was […]
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Police are searching for a man following the armed robbery of a fast food outlet at Eagleby last night. Just before 9pm a man entered the River Hills Road business before threatening a female attendant with a knife and demanding money from the till. The staff member complied with his demands and the man fled […]
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Police have charged two men with drug trafficking after a vehicle was intercepted in Gladstone today. It will be alleged around 1.45pm officers intercepted a vehicle on Tank Street before locating a quantity of methamphetamine, cannabis, other dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia, and a sum of cash. A 24-year-old New Auckland man was charged with seven […]
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A man has suffered fatal injuries when he was struck by a ute at the intersection of Helliwell and Beaudesert Roads tonight. The man, believed to be aged in his 40s, attempted to cross Beaudesert Road at around 6pm when he was struck by a ute travelling in the inbound lane. He died at the […]
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Police have rescued an 82-year-old lady from a smoke-filled unit in Garbutt this afternoon. At around 4:45pm, Townsville police attended a reported unit fire in a Gordon Street unit complex, where they initially detected smoke and heard fire alarms sounding. Upon reaching the unit, there was heavy white smoke coming from around a locked security […]
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An 18-year-old man has been charged with unlawful wounding following investigations into the alleged assault of a man and woman in a unit at Surfers Paradise last Monday night, June 3, 2013. It will be alleged that around 9.15pm three men forced entry to an Old Burleigh Road unit through a locked front door and […]
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A third person has died following a two vehicle head-on traffic crash near Dalby on Sunday. Around 2.30pm a car and a truck collided on the Warrego Highway about 15 kilometres east of Dalby. The driver of the car, a 39-year-old Chinchilla man, and one of his passengers, a 41-year-old man were pronounced deceased […]
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