‘Needle spiking’ venues grow as staff and patrons warned
Two more Newcastle venues have been added to the list of places where women have reported being injected with needles as the city’s publicans order staff and regulars to be hyper-vigilant.
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Man stabbed, children victims of Hamilton carjacking: police
Detective allege a motorist was stabbed with a scalpel, a young family were victims of a carjacking and a chemist was held up during a terrifying few minutes on Beaumont St.
Six women ‘injected’ at popular nightspots
Detectives are investigating after six women found needle marks on their bodies after falling ill while out partying.
Man drunk and speeding before fatal morning crash: cops
Police will allege the woman had parked her car on the shoulder of Pindimar Rd when it was struck by a 46-year-old man.
Search fails to find missing boxing champ
What happened to father of four Patrick Thaidy remains a mystery after a fresh police search of Warners Bay bushland fails to find any evidence in relation to the 60-year-old.
Brothel brawl: Man admits stabbing escort girlfriend’s client
Robert Moretti had turned up at the Jesmond brothel after arguing with his girlfriend. He stabbed a client three times after mistakenly thinking the man had called him “a w**ker”.
Covid crook gets four years’ jail for burglaries
He targeted over a dozen businesses already struggling with the pandemic, helping himself to more than $20,000 in cash. And now, Joshua Fahey will pay for his crimes.
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Cash, drugs and guns seized in Maitland raids
Two people have been charged after Strike Force Callard was established to investigate an alleged drug syndicate working across parts of the Lower Hunter.
’Should be dead by now’: chilling texts before alleged murder
A court has heard allegations of how Stuart Daniel Campbell had nicknamed Stacey Klimovitch’s alleged assassin “Sicario”, a title used by Mexican drug cartels meaning “hitman” days before her death.
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