Drug bust: Passenger intel leads to meth find under driver’s seat
A man with a history of drug issues wasn’t the target during his latest drug bust, but the large amount of meth police found came as no surprise.
Police & Courts
‘Put you in a box’: Man’s threat to kill carwash owner
A man who threatened to bash and kill a Central Queensland carwash owner during an ugly confrontation was also busted dealing drugs.
Texts uncover Qld mum-of-five’s drug trafficking business
A mother-of-five was caught when messages on her mobile phone revealed rampant drug dealing spanning from Central Qld to the Gold Coast.
‘Cocaine, Snapchat sales’: How hospo manager turned into trafficker
A young Qld drug dealer was making thousands on Snapchat and had offered to supply across the state when a late-night bust at an industrial estate brought her undone.
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Motorcyclist flown to hospital after mining road crash
A rescue helicopter has been dispatched to airlift a motorcyclist following a crash north of a Queensland mining town.
‘Preyed upon’: Painter steals resident’s possessions, pawns them
A Central Queensland painter has faced court after he stole a man’s possessions while working on his home and pawned them.
‘Stood over her’: Diesel mechanic sentenced for DV assaults
Details of how a Central Queensland diesel mechanic from a “close-knit family” subjected a woman to domestic violence assaults have been heard during his sentencing in court.
Revealed: How fatal chopper crash is set to change Talisman Sabre
The inquiry into the helicopter crash that killed four Defence personnel in 2023 has triggered a new approach to Australia’s largest bilateral military exercise.
Tragedies to trafficking: Why baby-faced dealer’s past is ‘worse than most’
In a world where “80 percent” of those he sentences have “prejudicial backgrounds”, a 22-year-old trafficker’s case still stood out to this seasoned Qld judge.
Police puzzled: Man charged after bizarre behaviour in cell
A Central Queensland driller has faced court for the bizarre things he did while in a cell at a police station.
Named: Shoplifters busted in targeted police sting
A number of people have faced court after they were busted in a police sting targeting shoplifters at a Central Queensland shopping centre.
Named: CQ child sex offenders busted breaching reporting conditions
The identities of three Central Queensland child sex offenders busted breaching strict reporting conditions can be revealed along with what happened to them in court.
‘Fighting patrons, Triple-0 call’: Video showed woman bashing man
A woman bashed a man in a violent fight outside a Central Queensland pub but her attack didn’t stop there – after she knocked him to the ground, she kicked him in the head.
31 Mackay Whitsunday parents behaving badly
From bestiality to serious drug crimes, serious assault or causing terrible crashes, meet the Mackay and Whitsunday parents whose bad behaviour landed them in court for different reasons in 2024.
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