BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 24 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: CORRECTION: The previous version of this release provided an incorrect date of when emergency services were initially called. The error has been corrected below. Detectives from Rockhampton Child Protection Investigation Unit and specialist police from Crime and Intelligence Command's Child Trauma Unit are investigating the death of a two-month-old girl at Gracemere. Around 11.15pm on Sunday, Januar...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 24 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Officers from the State Flying Squad alongside officers from the Far North District have charged 65 people with 249 offences during a 5-day deployment to Cairns. Between January 20 and 24, the State Flying Squad joined Cairns General Duties police, officers from the Cairns Property Crime Unit, Far North District Tactical Crime Squad, Tablelands units and Cairns Child Protection and Investigation Unit...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 24 -- The Department of Environment and Science issued the following media release: Wildlife officers are investigating multiple reported sightings of a crocodile on the beach and in the water at Coonarr Beach and Elliott River mouth in the WideBay region. On 23 January 2025, the Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation received five reports from community members of what they believed to be acrocodile. Wildlife officers are reviewing a short v...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 24 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: The Forensic Crash Unit are investigating a serious traffic crash involving a Queensland Police Service vehicle at Warrill View in the Scenic Rim this afternoon, January 24. Initial investigations indicate that around 1pm, the police vehicle and a truck collided on the Cunningham Highway, north of Radford Road. The driver and sole occupant of the police vehicle, a male senior constable, sustained se...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 23 -- The Department of Environment and Science issued the following media release: Open larger image The baited hook was set for the crocodile on the Bohle River in Townsville The discovery of a large, baited hook in the upper reaches of the Bohle River in Townsville is under investigation, with wildlife officers convinced it was set to catch a large crocodile in thearea. On 20 January 2025, wildlife officers found the hook and snare line during an investigation ...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 23 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are seeking urgent public assistance to help locate a 38-year-old man missing from the Roma area since January 11. Richard Kearns was last seen on Barracks Road, Tingun (30 km south of Roma)after being dropped there by his mother on January 11. He has not been seen since. Police and family hold concerns for his welfare as he has been missing during a time of extreme heat and is not believed t...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 23 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating a fatal traffic crash in Rangeville yesterday, January 22. Just before 12pm, a yellow Suzuki motorbike travelling on Long Street has collided with a white Subaru VX. The motorbike rider, a 44-year-old Newtown man, was pronounced deceased at the scene. The driver and sole occupant of the vehicle, a 64-year-old East Toowoomba woman, was not physically injured....
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 23 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police have charged 29 people with 81 offences in a two-day operation earlier this week in the Gladstone area. Throughout the multi-agency operation, police executed 26 warrants and seized over $500,000 worth of drugs, as well as a large quantity of ammunition and cash. Aimed at disrupting and deterring crime across the Gladstone area, Operation Reacher arrested and charged 29 people with offences i...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 23 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police have charged a man with 140 alleged fraud offences after extensive investigations into a series of incidents allegedly committed in 2019 and 2020 in Gympie and on the Gold Coast. The man allegedly fraudulently obtained and attempted to fraudulently obtain loans through various financial institutions, using the stolen identities of multiple people known to him. During these offences, the man a...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 23 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Mount Isa police have charged a 28-year-old Mornington Island man after he allegedly attempted to escape custody in Mount Isa this morning, January 23. The man was at the Mount Isa Airport waiting to be transported with several other prisoners. Police will allege, around 7.20am, the man jumped out of the parked police van and ran a short distance before he was apprehended by police and taken into cu...