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Kerri-Anne Mesner is a senior reporter covering court and crime for The Morning Bulletin. She started with the company more than a decade ago and has a background in political reporting and digital production.

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Rockhampton

Funds for CQ Community Legal Centre helps low-income earners

Rockhampton residents are set to benefit from a $3.2 million cash injection for community legal services over the next five years.

Police & Courts

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Drug user kept ‘how to sell meth’ notes on white board

“Drug dealers end up having to watch their backs the rest of their lives and some times end up dead,” Magistrate warns.

Rockhampton

Sex offender fails to report contact with children

Judge warns offender if he doesn’t complete the sex offender courses, he will be made to in jail

Rockhampton

The two 36-year-olds will appear in Woorabinda Magistrates Court on August 14 after police allegedly found marijuana and 111 litres of alcohol.The 111 litres of alcohol consisted of 24 one litre bottles of rum, 21 one litre bottles of bourbon, 16 four litre wine casks and two one litre bottles of port

111 litres of alcohol smuggled into COVID-19 lock down town

TWO men have been arrested after police found drugs and alcohol smuggled into a community currently in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Rockhampton

Bail denied for accused choker

BACKLOGS of trial by jury caused by coronavirus social distancing regulations was one excuse an accused domestic violence offender put forward for bail release.

Rockhampton

Inspector Mark Burgess said police expected queuing outside stores, cafes, restuarants, bars and other businesses where restrictions will be lifted.

CQ police prepare for easing of COVID-19 restrictions

CENTRAL Queensland police will be focusing on queues for shops and eateries, along with road users behaviours, as COVID-19 restrictions ease this weekend.

Rockhampton

Meth addict busted three times in eight months

Police were going to use a grinder to access a safe which the defendant had hidden 25.422g of meth, of which 18.799g was pure.

Rockhampton

Dark Phone Mobile Man Texting Guy People

SMS words of ‘considerable hatred and threats of harm’

A MAGISTRATE has described contents of a text message sent by a man to his former partner as “considerable hatred and threats of harm”.

Rockhampton

Generic photograph of a burglar thief breaking into a house through an unlocked window. burglary theft larceny. PIRATE: 28/02/2001.

Pitchfork allegedly used in $25K CQ jewellery heist

A CAREER criminal with 54 convictions on a 10 page criminal record allegedly used a pitchfork to gain access to a Rockhampton resident in broad daylight and stole $25,000 of jewellery.

Rockhampton

A vessel in Fig Tree Creek subject to court orders due to derelict condition. The vessel is on the western bank, and is unseaworthy, has visible cracks in the floor, bollards securing vessel badly rusted, batteries in engine room have been inundated with water and inoperable, etc. The owner, Kristoffer Raymond Mitchell, lives in New South Wales.

Court orders removal for rotting ship in Fig Tree Ck

The vessel has been deemed unseaworthy as the decking has rotted and was soft when weight applied, visible cracks on the floor, several timber planks on the gunwale were rotten and the bollards securing the ship were badly rusted.

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