Logan detectives are investigating the armed robbery of a Beenleigh service station last night. Around 9.10pm a man armed with a hammer entered the Logan River Road business and threatened a 19-year-old male employee before stealing cash and cigarettes. The man, who is described as having an olive complexion and around 180cm tall with a […]
Category: Queensland Police News Updates
Fatal crash, Mirani
Police are investigating a single vehicle, fatal crash which occurred on Mackay Eungulla Road at Mirani this morning. At around 8am, police were called to the scene following reports an ambulance had left the roadway, rolled several times and then hit a tree. The 32-year-old male driver and sole occupant of the vehicle was pronounced […]
Update: Wounding, Bundaberg
A man has been charged with attempted murder after another man was critically injured during a stabbing at a Bundaberg North residence on Friday night. It is alleged that around 10.30pm on January 25 a domestic disturbance occurred between a man and a woman who were both visiting the Station Street address. The 20-year-old man […]
Theft of railway iron, Cooladdi
Detectives from the Charleville Major and Organised Crime Squad (Rural) are appealing for information after the theft railway iron near Cooladdi, west of Charleville. Preliminary investigations indicate heavy machinery was used to steal the iron sometime between December 2018 and mid-January 2019. Approximately 160 lengths of railway iron were removed from the site, which is […]
Update 4 – Homicide, Kelvin Grove
Detectives investigating the death of a 33-year-old man at Kelvin Grove on Friday are appealing for public assistance to locate important evidence believed to be dumped in the area. The man’s body was discovered at a Hunter Street address around 3pm on January 18. Three men have since appeared in court charged with his murder. […]
Police and firies investigate suspicious Bribie Island bushfire
Police and officers from Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) investigating this weekend’s bushfire on Bribie Island have deemed the cause of the blaze suspicious. Shortly after midday on January 17, a multi-agency local and state government response was initiated after authorities were alerted to a bushfire off Hornsby Road at Bellara. Warm northerly winds […]
Drug arrests, Halifax and Cordelia
Police have charged a man with various drug offences following raids on a number of residences in Cordelia and Halifax this week. Officers from Halifax Police Station executed a number of search warrants on addresses with the assistance of a drug detection dog from Townsville following information provided by members of the public through Crime […]
‘School Watch’ – Look, Listen, Report
With school holidays coming to an end, returning to school is always an exciting time for our students and community. In the weeks prior to returning to school however, empty schools provide an opportunity for criminal activity – becoming targets for unlawful entry, arson, stealing, graffiti and property damage offences. All of these have the […]
Update 3 – Homicide, Kelvin Grove
Detectives investigating the death of Robert Frescons have charged two more men with murder overnight. Police were called to an address on Hunter Street around 3pm and the body of a man was discovered. A 21-year old man was arrested and charged yesterday with one count of murder. Two other men, a 23-year-old Broadbeach man […]
Update 2: Homicide, Kelvin Grove
An arrest has been made by officers attached to Operation Romeo Chariot – a homicide investigation launched following the death of a man at Kelvin Grove on Friday afternoon. Detectives from the Brisbane City Criminal Investigation Branch this morning arrested a 21-year-old Broadbeach man and subsequently charged him with murder. This follows the discovery of […]