BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 5 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Detectives from the Longreach Criminal Investigation Branch have charged a 34-year-old Longreach man, following an investigation into the alleged display of a flag featuring offensive racial vilification. Police executed a search warrant at a Falcon Street address on February 4, seizing the flag. As a result of the investigation, he has been charged with displaying a prohibited symbol. The man was i...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 5 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Brisbane police have taken eight teenagers into custody in relation to a stolen motor vehicle. A silver Mercedes Benz was stolen from a Wade Street, Virginia, address overnight, February 5. POLAIR tracked the vehicle across Brisbane's north and south. The car was tracked to Vincent Street in Indooroopilly, where officers recovered the damaged vehicle shortly before 10am. Police subsequently took ei...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 5 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are conducting high-visibility anti-looting patrols across flood affected communities in North Queensland, including Townsville and surrounding areas. Extra police were deployed to flood zones in recent days and are conducting 24-hour patrols aimed at deterring anti-social and criminal behaviour to protect the property of flood victims. Police are investigating reports of property damage and l...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 5 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating a fatal traffic crash in Manly West today Wednesday, February 5. About 3:45 pm, police were called to an address on Manly Road, Manly West, following reports of a single vehicle traffic crash. Initial investigations indicate a blue Ford Falcon has left the road where it has crashed into a tree. The driver and sole occupant of the Ford, a 27-year-old Capalaba ...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 5 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: UPDATE: The girl subject to the previous media release has been located. Police wish to thank members of the public for their assistance. Identifying information from the previous post has been removed due to privacy reasons. EARLIER: Police are seeking public assistance to locate a girl reported missing from Gladstone, February 5. The girl, pictured, was last seen at an address in Gladstone in the m...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 5 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police have charged eight people following the track of a stolen vehicle in Brisbane today. It is alleged the silver Mercedes Benz was stolen from a Wade Street, Virginia, address overnight, February 5. Police will allege the car was tracked by POLAIR and sighted driving across Brisbane's north and south. The car was tracked to Vincent Street in Indooroopilly where it will be alleged officers recove...
CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 5 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note:Grow house vision available via Hightail Two Victorian women, with alleged connections to Albanian organised crime, have been charged for their alleged involvement in a cannabis trafficking plot and are expected to face the Melbourne Magistrates Court today (5 February, 2025). The Victorian Joint Organised Crime Taskforce (JOCTF) initially charged aHillside man in September 2024, for his alleg...
CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 5 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police AFP Special Operation Avalite has charged a Victorian man with allegedly calling a political organisation and making offensive antisemitic comments. The Toorloo Arm man, 64, was charged today (5 February, 2025) with one count of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence, contrary to section 474.17(1) of...
CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 5 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note:Footage and images of the man are available on Hightail A Sydney man, 35, will appear before Downing Centre Local Court today (5 February, 2025) after he was detained on a boat off the Northern Territory coast in a multi-agency operation on 26 January, 2025. The man is accused of being a member of a criminal syndicate which used the AN0M platform - an encrypted communications application used ...
CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 5 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint release between the Australian Federal Police and Western Australia Police Force Editor's note:images available via Hightail A Perth man who was arrested by police while tryingto flush methamphetamine down the toilet, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment. The man, 53, was sentenced yesterday (4 February, 2025), by the Perth District Court for possessing an illicit drug with intent...