Police have charged 34 people with 1,049 charges following the closure of a significant operation targeting the distribution of Ice in South West Queensland. Commencing in February 2018, Operation Quebec Oxygen involved detectives from Dalby Criminal Investigation Branch, with the assistance of State Crime Command’s Rural Major Organised Crime Squad (MOCS) and local officers. Over […]
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Update: Serious traffic crash, Oakey
Police have served a man with three traffic offence notices following the protracted investigation into an unsecure metal bar which struck a woman near Oakey on February 25. It will be alleged around 3.15pm, a 60-year-old woman was driving a rigid truck westbound on the Warrego Highway when a metal rod approximately 50 centimetres in […]
Flag raising heralds NAIDOC celebrations at Police Headquarters
In recognition of the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC), Minister for Police and Minister for Corrective Services, the Honourable Mark Ryan MP joined Commissioner Katarina Carroll for a flag raising ceremony at Police Headquarters this morning. In 2019, NAIDOC Week is being celebrated across the country from July 7, to July 14, […]
Armed robbery, Surfers Paradise
Police have charged three teenage boys, following the armed robbery of a man at Surfers Paradise overnight. It will be alleged that around 11.05pm, one of the teens snatched a mobile phone from a 24-year-old man at a bus-stop on Cypress Avenue and ran. The 24-year-old gave chase and caught up with the boy approximately […]
Armed robbery, Allenstown
Two men and a woman have been charged over the alleged violent armed robbery of a licensed premises at Allenstown yesterday which left a worker and customer with facial injuries. It will be alleged a man armed with a firearm entered the Upper Dawson Road business shortly before 4.30pm followed by another man and woman. […]
Update 4: Homicide investigation, Plainland
A man has been charged with murder in relation to the death of 53-year-old Oakey man Paul Rock at Plainland on July 1. A 26-year-old Park Ridge man was taken into custody following an incident at Berrinba last night. He has since been charged with six offences including murder, two counts of supply dangerous drugs […]
Update 3: Homicide investigation, Plainland
Detectives have arrested a man in relation to the death of 53-year-old Oakey man Paul Rock at Plainland on July 1. A 26-year-old Park Ridge man was arrested following an incident at Berrinba last night. Around 6pm on July 1, Mr Rock died in the rear car park of a local business on Laidley Plainland […]
Update – Robbery incidents, Surfers Paradise
Police have charged a 16-year-old girl in relation to two robbery type incidents in Surfers Paradise last Friday morning, July 5. It is alleged around 7.25am two women, aged in their 40s, were walking along Gold Coast Highway near Markwell Street when a young woman got out of a dark grey Kia Cerato hatchback and […]
Update: Armed robbery, Aitkenvale
Police have charged a man following two armed robberies and an attempted armed robbery in Townsville over the weekend. It will be alleged at around 10pm on July 5 a man entered a service station on Nathan Street in Aitkenvale, armed with a knife. The man allegedly demanded money and cigarettes from a staff member […]
Serious traffic crash, Sarina
A woman has been seriously injured following a single vehicle traffic crash in Sarina yesterday. At about 5pm, emergency services responded to reports of a car upside down and engulfed in fire on Range Road in Sarina. A woman in her 50s was transported to Mackay Base Hospital with significant burns to her right arm […]