Bystanders have rescued a toddler who was in a car rollover on the Warrego Highway before a young woman in her 20s was cut from the vehicle. The drama was followed by a truck rollover which spilt 30,000 litres of molasses.
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.
A magistrate has warned a coke can fan he may no longer be a “valued customer” at one of a small town’s only businesses following a bizarre late-night break-in.
From drug offences and fraud to assaults and domestic violence, and even attacking cops, meet the Southern Downs mums and dads who faced courts for their crimes in 2023. FULL LIST.
One young man fronted court for the first time for producing his own drugs and possessing ecstasy, while another said he fell back into a drug habit after the birth of his first child. Full list of offenders here:
The Southern Downs brother who claimed to not be a ‘seasoned Facebook user’ says his inexperience using the social media app while trying to contact his niece and nephew, led to the violations of his domestic violence order.
Despite being banned from going within 100m of his son’s school, this repeat offender defied his domestic violence order by visiting his child on his birthday, with a court told it was out of frustration at being blocked from all contact.
The educator’s apparent ‘brain snap’ led him to throw a number of punches at his victim and striking his face, before bystanders and security had to forcibly restrain him.
Multiple emergency services were called to the home just outside of Stanthorpe on Wednesday evening.
Police claim the Stanthorpe woman used a stolen debit card to treat herself to a number of new purchases. She was just one of the alleged offenders charged by police this month.
Initial reports suggest the man suffered head and shoulder injuries in the Warwick crash.
Police say the Granite Belt man was driving at nearly three times the legal alcohol limit when he crashed his car just after midday. He was one of a list of people nabbed by Stanthorpe cops over the last week for drink and drug driving.
An alcohol-fuelled night turned violent, with one man copping a blow to the mouth.
Police say the crash came only hours before another driver ‘hit a car and ran away’ in a Warwick car park.
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