AMBER ALERT SEARCH ENDS IN NEWCASTLE
A mother has defended her decision to defy the advice of doctors and take her disabled son from a Brisbane hospital. The young boy’s disappearance sparked a major police search before the family was...
View ArticleDRIVER WITH FOUR CHILDREN IN CAR ALLEGEDLY LEADS POLICE ON 28KM PURSUIT
A driver has allegedly led police on a pursuit while under the influence of alcohol and with four children in the vehicle on the mid north coast. Around 2:20pm yesterday, police say they detected a...
View Article46-YEAR-OLD TO FACE COURT OVER ALLEGED ICE FIND
A man is due to face court today on drugs charges. Around 11:45pm yesterday, police were patrolling Lagoons Circuit in Nelson Bay, when they spoke to a man standing beside a car. Police say they found...
View ArticleDOG SQUAD HELPS LOCATE MAN WANTED ON OUTSTANDING WARRANTS
A man on outstanding warrants has led police on a vehicle pursuit before being found in a shed on a rural property in Port Stephens. Around 6:30pm last night, police were patrolling Nelson Bay Road at...
View ArticleTWO ON THE RUN AFTER LAKE MUNMORAH HOLD UP
Staff at a fast-food restaurant have been held up at knifepoint on the Central Coast. Shortly before 7 o’clock last night, two men entered the takeaway store on Anita Avenue in Lake Munmorah armed with...
View ArticleTHREE MOTORCYCLE DEATHS IN 24 HOURS ON NSW ROADS
Three motorcyclists have been killed on NSW roads in separate accidents over the last 24 hours. In the first incident, a motorcycle left the road and went down an embankment on the Bruxner Highway at...
View ArticleTASK FORCE TARGETS ILLEGAL FIREARMS AND WEAPONS
A cache of what police allege are illegal firearms and weapons has been seized as part of a two-day operation targeting outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCG) across NSW. Strike Force Batterson was initiated...
View ArticleCOMMERCIAL QUANTITY OF ‘ICE’ ALLEGEDLY SEIZED AT BALLINA AIRPORT
Northern Rivers police have allegedly seized a commercial quantity of the drug ‘ice’ during a search at an airport over the weekend. Ongoing investigations led police to an airport in Ballina around...
View ArticleADDITIONAL $60 MILLION IN SCHOOL MAINTENANCE FOUNDING ANNOUNCED
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Education Minister Rob Stokes have announced an additional $60 million financial package to target schools with the longest maintenance lists. The $60 million is on...
View ArticlePOLICE ON THE LOOKOUT AFTER BROADBEACH ASSAULT
A 32-year-old man has been the victim of an assault on the Gold Coast early this morning. The man was sitting in a balcony section of a licensed premises at Broadbeach at around 4am, when he was...
View Article85-YEAR-OLD HAS HER PURSE SNATCHED IN WEST TAMWORTH
Police are appealing for help after an elderly woman had her purse snatched in broad daylight in the state’s north-west. Shortly before 1pm on Wednesday, an 85-year-old woman was walking towards the...
View ArticleTEEN FIGHTING FOR LIFE AFTER ATTEMPTED CARJACKING GOES WRONG
A 15-year-old girl is in hospital with life threatening injuries, after an alleged car-jacking went wrong on the Gold Coast. Police say that around 7:30pm last night, a woman, aged 24, offered two...
View Article61-YEAR-OLD TO FACE COURT OVER ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULTS
A man has been charged over the alleged sexual assault of three teenage boys at a Lake Macquarie property during the mid-to-late 1990s. Police say the sexual assaults occurred at the Dora Creek home of...
View ArticleDRUG MANUFACTURING CHEMICALS ALLEGEDLY FOUND IN TWEED HEADS
A quantity of drugs and chemicals used in the manufacturing of illicit drugs have allegedly been uncovered a during the search of a Northern Rivers property. Police executed a search warrant at a...
View ArticleTHREE WANTED OVER ATTEMPTED TELARAH ROBBERY
CCTV images have been released as police investigate an attempted robbery in the Hunter Valley from earlier this year. In late March, a man, aged 24, was walking home across a sports oval on John...
View ArticleTEEN CHARGED OVER ALLEGED ATTEMPTED CARJACKING
A teenage boy, allegedly involved in a foiled carjacking that left a girl fighting for her life on the Gold Coast, has been charged over the incident. The boy and girl, both aged 15, secured a lift...
View Article23-YEAR-OLD CHARGED OVER KARIONG SERVICE STATION HOLD-UP
A man has been charged over the alleged robbery of a Central Coast service station. Police say shortly after 7pm last night, the man attended a service station on Mitchell Road in Kariong armed with a...
View ArticleALLEGED ATTEMPTED CARJACKER ESCAPES POLICE CUSTODY
A teenager, wanted in relation to an alleged attempted carjacking on the Gold Coast, has mistakenly been released from police custody. Police say the 15-year-old was in a cell at the Southport...
View ArticlePARAMEDIC ATTACKED WITH A KNIFE IN PORT STEPHENS
A man is accused of trying to stab a paramedic, who was attempting to treat him in Port Stephens. Just before 10:45pm yesterday, two paramedics attended a house on John Parade in Lemon Tree Passage, to...
View Article15-YEAR-OLD ALLEGED CARJACKER BACK IN CUSTODY
A 15-year-old boy who was accidentally released from the Southport Watchhouse yesterday is back in police custody. The boy self-presented to the watchhouse with his lawyer around 11.45am today. Police...
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