A man and woman who allegedly carried out “significant fraud across multiple states and territories” and planned to illegally flee the country with forged documents have been arrested at a Darwin hotel with an unlicensed firearm and drugs, NT Police said.
Two people in their 20s have been extradited back to the Northern Territory and charged in connection with the disappearance of Darwin man Tony Rowe, who went missing in May of last year, NT Police said, with one of them charged with committing a dangerous act causing death.
NT Police are asking the public to dob in Darwin man Tyson Powell but not to approach him, with officers suspecting him of ramming a police car in Woolner last month.
Human remains found in the NT outback have been identified as a man who was last seen in 1999, NT Police said, crediting new forensic techniques with closing the cold case.
NT Police have taken five days to alert the public about a man who is on the run after indecently assaulting a woman at Casuarina Coastal Reserve, while a friend of the victim has questioned why the police took so long to warn the public.
One of two men allegedly involved in firing a gun after breaking into a Katherine home has been arrested after the pair assaulted a resident and stole cash, NT Police said.
A 33-year-old man was arrested Sunday afternoon outside the Beachfront Hotel after allegedly threatening a person with a knife, just days after another man was stabbed in the chest at the popular pub, with the latest incident not publicly reported.
Staff at the Alice Springs Hospital were allegedly assaulted with “blunt weapons” early Saturday morning by three people who also smashed up the emergency department’s entry doors before fleeing the scene, NT Police said.
NT Police are searching for three males who allegedly threatened the occupants of a silver Hyundai Accent with a knife before punching one of the occupants and stealing money and the car.
NT Police said one male was arrested for “unlawful use” of a car and another for disorderly behaviour during Bass in the Grass over the weekend, but otherwise, the event “went off without a hitch”.
NT Police seized 200 litres of alcohol from the back of a car bound for remote communities after being intercepted on the Stuart Highway, south of Alice Springs on Friday, with police warning they will continue to stop the secondary supply of grog into “vulnerable communities”.
NT Police are investigating the stabbing of a 23-year-old man outside the Beachfront Hotel on Thursday evening that police said followed a disturbance involving roughly 10 people.
