Male seen ‘dragging’ woman in serious assault in Stuart Park

NT Police are calling for witnesses to a serious assault on Friday night in Stuart Park, where a male was allegedly seen ‘dragging’ the victim along the road.

NT Police are calling for witnesses to a serious assault on Friday night in Stuart Park, where a male was allegedly seen “dragging” the victim along the road.

Around 12.10am on February 26, police received a report of a man assaulting a woman on Ramirez Road.

Police and paramedics attended, and located a woman with extensive injuries in a nearby laneway.

Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Michael Budge said the woman was conveyed to Royal Darwin Hospital for treatment, where she remains in a stable condition.

Ramirez Road in Stuart Park. Picture: Google StreetView.

“We believe this is a domestic violence incident, however we have not yet located the offender,” he said.

“This was a very serious assault and the offender must be held accountable.

“We are calling on anyone who was in the area between 11pm and 1am who may have dash-cam or CCTV footage, or who has other information to come forward.”

16-year-old arrested for property damage

A 16-YEAR-OLD girl has been arrested in relation to a criminal damage incident in Alice Springs yesterday.

CCTV captured the girl along with a 12-year-old male trying to force entry into a shop on Hartley Street shortly after 5am.

The pair caused significant damage to the property.

Investigators from Strike Force Viper identified and found the two youths later that day,

The girl has been charged with attempted unlawful entry and damage to property.

The boy will be dealt with under the Youth Justice Act.

Search for missing excavator

POLICE are on the hunt for an excavator stolen from Bees Creek earlier this month.

The CAT POSI Track was stolen from a property on Bees Creek Road sometime between February 8 and 9.

An excavator like this one was stolen from Bees Creek. Picture: NT Police

Anyone with information should contact Police on 131 444 and quote reference number 9921473

Man charged for six break-ins

A man has been charged in relation to numerous break ins across Darwin since January.

The 20-year-old was arrested by NT police yesterday.

It is alleged he was involved in unlawful entries in Malak, Anula, Casuarina, Nightcliff and Millner.

As a result he has been charged with six counts of unlawful entry to a building, six counts of damage to property and five counts of stealing.

He will appear in Darwin Local Court on March 15.

Acting Superintendent Mark Bland said Strike Force Trident would continue to put property offenders before the courts.

“All of these incidents resulted in senseless damage to businesses for the theft of relatively small items,” he said.

Busy 24 hours for ambos on the roads

UPDATE, Thursday, 7am: A collision with a donkey, three car crash and a motorbike incident have kept Top End ambos busy over the last 24-hours.

St John NT operations manager Craig Garraway said a three car crash involving eight people occurred on Amy Johnson Av on Wednesday afternoon had “thankfully” no injuries.

“Eight people (were) checked out by our paramedics and none of them need to go to hospital so that was good,” Mr Garraway told ABC Darwin.

He said a car, 30km west of Katherine hit a donkey on Wednesday morning.

“Thankfully no injuries to that person in the car but I don’t think the donkey came off too well,” Mr Garraway said.

A pedestrian was hit “by a car I believe” on Katherine Tce in Katherine on Wednesday night.

“Serious injuries from that. Rushed to the Katherine district hospital and recovering I believe, if not they may have been brought to Darwin early this morning,” he said.

Mr Garraway said a 49-year-old man fell off his motorbike on a Howard Springs property, causing serious injuries to his legs and mainly the knee area.

“Paramedics have taken him to hospital to get him treated and looked after and I’m sure he’s still in there getting very well looked after by the support staff,” he said.

Not so Good Times

AN estimated $6000 to $7000 worth of alcohol was stolen from Good Times Bar and Grill.

Pub manager Sean Ching said between six and seven people enter the venue multiple times on Tuesday morning, stealing various amounts of alcohol on each occasion.

“They came in at least four of five times, until six in the morning,” he said.

“Sitting at the bar, drinking our wine, putting stuff in their backpacks”.

The perpetrators entered the venue by smashing a security screen and glass windows with a metal bar, causing $1400 worth of damage.

“They took everything from the top shelf, and most of the classic spirits … everything in the fridge, bar fridge, and [items] from the cool room,” Mr Ching said.

Good Times will close its doors until early next week to repair and restock.

It is the most recent of multiple break-ins at the venue, the first since September last year.

The case is currently under police investigation, with police urging anyone with information to call 131 444.

EARLIER: NT Police are calling for witnesses following an unlawful entry into a Palmerston business early on Tuesday morning.

At 11.15am a group of unknown offenders unlawfully entered a licensed business on Palmerston Circuit.

A security screen and glass window were damaged and a quantity of alcohol was stolen from the premises.

The offenders returned several times, stealing alcohol each time

Acting Superintendent Mark Bland said the case currently under investigation.

“We are working to identify the offenders and are requesting anyone with information to make contact on 131 444.

“You can also make an anonymous report through Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. Please quote reference 9932613.”

Twenty four bottles of rum seized at Tiwi Islands airport

Twenty four bottles of Bundaberg Rum set for “secondary sale” in a restricted area of the Tiwi Islands was intercepted by NT Police after two boxes of freight appeared “excessively heavy” while conducting routine screening of air arrivals

NT Police Acting Sergeant Ben Higgins said after the consignee confirmed ownership of the items, police found nine one-litre bottles of rum in a box.

“Two boxes of freight appeared excessively heavy,” said Acting Sergeant Higgins.

“The consignee then advised there were additional bottles hidden in other items on board the flight.”

Act Sgt Higgins said police seized a total of 24 bottles that were “destined for secondary sale in the community at highly inflated prices”.

A 20-year-old woman was issued a Notice to Appear for Bring and supply liquor in a restricted area.

“Secondary supply targets our most vulnerable people, and contributes to the cycles of poverty and violence,” he said.

“Police will continue to target the secondary supply of liquor and hold to account those seeking to profit from the practice.”

The woman will face court at a later date.

Series of crashes within 24-hour period

ST JOHN NT ambos have had another busy 24-hours on the roads with a number of crashes happening across the Territory.

St John NT operations manager Craig Garraway said a single car rollover occurred 90km West of Timber Creek about 3.30pm on Monday.

“A truck driver came across that crash and we dispatched the Timber Creek Health Clinic to that incident along with paramedics from Katherine and we worked with CareFlight – so a good result in the end,” Mr Garraway told ABC Darwin.

“Quite a long retrieval as you can imagine a long way out to the West but got him back to Timber Creek and CareFlight were able to get him on a plane and up to Darwin to get some treatment at the Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) there.”

Mr Garraway said a crash during peak hour traffic on Monday about 4.30pm “really interrupted” the Pinelands area.

“No injuries at that crash but it did cause quite significant delays in traffic for people getting home,” he said.

A few hours later following the Pinelands incident, Mr Garraway said “quite a serious” two car crash happened in Winnellie about 9.30pm where two people were taken to the RDH with non life threatening injuries.

“Probably just a warning there, a lot of rain on the road and more rain coming and we seem to be having a significant amount of crashes every day at the moment so people just need to be careful,” he said.

A tragic weekend on Territory roads

THE Top End had a tragic weekend on the roads after a car collided with a horse, another car rolled over on a rural road and a single car crash fatally claimed four lives.

St John NT operations manager Craig Garraway said a car collision with a horse in Weddell on Friday at 11pm was the first of many devastating incidents for the weekend.

“Thankfully the person driving that car didn’t see serious injuries – so was treated on scene and was able to go home from there,” Mr Garraway said.

“But quite a bit of damage I believe and obviously the horse didn’t come off too well from that incident.”

Mr Garraway said a car rolled on a rural road in the Douglas Daly and trapped the passenger inside for a “period of time” while they had an injury to the arm.

“CareFlight and the Adelaide River health clinic responded to that and were able to get that person back into Royal Darwin hospital which was a good result for everyone involved in that,” he said.

As previously reported by NT News, Mr Garraway mentioned the devastating crash which claimed the lives of all four passengers on Saturday night in Howard Springs.

“(The) car has collided with a pole out in the rural area there at Whitewood Rd, unfortunately four people passed away at the scene,” he said.

“Great turnout from all emergency services and hats off to everyone there, obviously a very difficult scene for everyone involved bystanders and all the bystanders and emergency workers.”

Mr Garraway said at a similar time to the Howard Springs crash, a 61-year-old man received a serious and “nasty” injury to his lower leg from using an angle grinder.

“My understanding is partial amputation of that lower leg,” he said.

“We responded out there with paramedics and responded with CareFlight who came out and assisted and brought those patients back into Royal Darwin Hospital.

“So great work again by everyone, co-ordination, comms team and call centre and getting everyone on scene as quick as they could.”

To conclude a weekend of unfortunate and tragic incidents around the Top End, Mr Garraway said a small plane survived an emergency landing by doing a “belly landing”.

“A little small plane was out flying around and unfortunately, the landing didn’t go down,” he said.

“So he did everything he needed to do to try and get it down and once they exhausted all of those options it was decided that they would do a belly landing on the grass next to the airstrip there.

“All emergency services went out there just to be on standby while he performed a beautiful landing on his belly is my understanding.”

Originally published as Male seen ‘dragging’ woman in serious assault in Stuart Park