Running scared: Frontline cops call in sick as violent youth crims game system
Frontline officers are calling in sick and refusing to go out in marked cars for fear of being targeted by young criminals who know the system will protect them.
Police & Courts
‘Hearing voices’: Thief tells terrified bottle-o manager he ‘owns the world’
A Gladstone bourbon thief who targeted the same bottle shop five times and terrorised staff there, said he could take “whatever he wants” because he “owns the world.”
‘Fallen into the trap’: Horticulturist had drugs growing in backyard
What police found when they raided a Yeppoon horticulturist’s home has been revealed, as well as her reason for engaging in illegal drug activity.
Date set for Central QLD youth crime crisis forum
Central Queenslanders will get to have their say on the youth crime crisis at a special hearing in Rockhampton at the end of this month.
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‘Dangerous and degrading’: Man chokes, punches girl who drove 500km to visit
A judge has told a man ‘you don’t treat people that way’ after he choked and punched his long-distance, underage ‘girlfriend’ over her driving manner after she had driven more than 500km to visit him. Read more here.
26 charges: Meth mum and serial thief gets jail warning
A Rockhampton mother of five has been given a final chance to stay out of jail after pleading guilty to 26 criminal offences. Here’s why she’s on incredibly thin ice.
‘Like a young idiot’: Indigenous Australians rant used in pub drama
Two patrons at a Central Queensland pub came up with a bizarre reason for why they could break the rules at the venue and proceeded to taunt security and staff.
‘Bloodied and bruised’: Man approaches police after street fight
A young man has paid a high price for his involvement in a street disturbance at night where he got “belted” before dishing out some of his own.
‘F— off so I can ding this bloke’: Pub patron abuses cops
Police were on night patrol when they came across two men having a verbal disagreement directly outside a Central Queensland pub. Things went downhill for one of the men from there.
‘You have a problem’: Teen’s disgusting act at public hospital
A Central Queensland teenager has faced court for creating a disturbance at a public hospital, which included him performing a foul act.
Woman has hair pulled ‘with force’ in fight at Central Qld salon
A Central Queensland woman has been charged with assault after a fight, involving hair-pulling, at an Emerald hair salon. Read what happened in court.
Drug bust: Large tyres used as garden beds for cannabis crop
Drugs in a caravan and a Landcruiser, as well as numerous large tyres being used as garden beds for a cannabis crop, were uncovered by police during a Capricorn Coast drug raid.
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