A reckless driving incident in Alice Springs involving a stolen vehicle colliding with several taxis Thursday night has the NT Police asking for the public’s assistance, with one of the taxi drivers reportedly attacked twice and threatened with an unspecified weapon.
Two brothers have been arrested for fighting in the street in Alice Springs today, with one allegedly “assaulting” the other with an “edged weapon”, NT Police said.
NT Police are investigating after four Alice Springs properties were broken into overnight and are also looking for information relating to a stolen car allegedly used to target a taxi.
An 85-year-old woman was first “bumped” by a member of a group of four adults, and then had her handbag stolen by the same person, in an Alice Springs car park on Friday, NT Police said.
The CLP Government has released a new masterplan for the ANZAC Oval Precinct in Alice Springs, which will see the proposed and long-delayed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Gallery of Australia reduced in size from previous designs to save on costs, with the oval to be reinstated as a rugby field.
Telecommunications in Alice Springs have been disrupted numerous times by the theft of hundreds of metres of copper wire since April, with NT Police asking the public to help them catch the perpetrators.
Fourteen constables and two senior officers will be sent to Alice Springs until the end of the school holidays in January in response to an increase in crime, Commander James Gray-Spence has said, a move that involves “high visibility” policing which Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro seemingly ordered for the Territory after she came to power.
A 55-year-old former government employee at a research facility south of Alice Springs has been charged with animal cruelty offences after 71 cattle were found deceased or dying at the facility in 2023, NT Police said.
Seven youths have been arrested in relation to a series of car thefts over the weekend in Alice Springs as part of Operation Archer, NT Police said, an operation designed to provide police with “additional capability” to crackdown on stolen vehicles and attacks on police.
A memorandum of understanding between the CLP Government and Alice Springs Town Council will see $27 million worth of infrastructure projects flow to the town, the Chief Minister said.
A group of armed offenders allegedly involved in a series of burglaries and car thefts from various Alice Springs homes over the weekend, that saw them driving stolen vehicles dangerously around the town while throwing rocks out of the windows, avoided arrest and are still at large, NT Police said.
The “extensive” manhunt for two young offenders who escaped the Alice Springs youth prison on Tuesday has ended after the pair turned themselves in to police with the support of their families on Wednesday night, the Corrections Commissioner said.
