Streetwatch: What police and emergency services news in your northern beaches’ suburb
Catch up on what police and emergency services have been doing across the northern beaches.
Manly
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OXFORD FALLS:
A Suzuki hatchback was badly damaged when it rolled on Morgan Rd, near the intersection with Kellys Way at 8.20pm on Monday. NSW Rural Fire Service brigades from Belrose and Davidson cleaned up the scene. The driver was not injured.
NORTH CURL CURL
A man was found with cannabis after he crashed his Toyota Hilux van into bushes at a popular dog walking park at 7.30am on Monday. The man, 36, from Belrose, was searched by police in the carpark at Flora and Richie Roberts Reserve. Officers found a small plastic resealable bag in the front left pants pocket containing 1.43 grams of cannabis. He was charged with possessing a prohibited drug.
MANLY
A woman 54, had her licence suspended for three months and fined $500 after being stopped for random breath test on Balgowlah Rd at 9.37pm on Sunday. She blew 0.053.
NARRABEEN
A wallet and medication where stolen, sometime between 6.30am and 7.10am on Saturday, from a locked Toyota Landcruiser parked on Ocean St.
MANLY
A male teenager was spoken to by police after he, and three children, started two fires inside the Manly Scout Hall in Ivanhoe Park at 2.45pm on Sunday. The teen, 14, from Manly, and his three friends, climbed through a gap in the hall’s wall before he set fire to a roll of
toilet paper, a pillow and a book. The group then entered the basement where the teen set a mattress alight before leaving the building. A witness went to Manly Police Station to report the fire. The teen and his friends were stopped near the police station and spoken to. The
teenager will be dealt with under the Young Offenders Act.
DEE WHY
A motorcycle rider who lost control and crashed his bike early on Saturday morning was charged with high range drink driving. The man, 30, riding a Yamaha, was seen by police to go through a red light on Pittwater Rd at 1.25am on Saturday. Police followed the rider and
signalled for him to stop. The rider continued on and police found him after he lost control
of the motorcycle and slid out at the intersection of Lismore Ave. He was not injured. He blew 0.198.
BROOKVALE
A man who was stopped for a random breath test at 7.37pm on Friday was charged with mid-range drink driving. The man, 40, from Freshwater, was driving a Hyundai Tucson along Winbourne Ave, when he was pulled over. He blew 0.121.
WARRIEWOOD
Cash and a laptop computer were stolen, some time between 7.30pm on Thursday and 10.40am on Good Friday, from an unlocked Mitsubishi Pajero parked on Warriewood Rd.
DEE WHY
A Mazda Bravo table top truck parked on Dee Why Pde was stolen some time between midday on Thursday and 10.05am on Friday 10.04.2020.
BROOKVALE
At 3.30pm on Good Friday a driver in a Toyota Landcruiser was stopped for a random breath test. The man, 22, blew 0.059 and immediately lost his licence for three months.
COLLAROY
A man, 50, staying at a backpacker hostel was charged with theft after stealing a surfboard belonging to another guest. The board had been left in a common area of the hostel on April 4, but was found on the weekend in the man’s room.