A 42-year-old Humpty Doo man was apprehended at a Palmerston shopping centre Sunday morning by the joint anti-child exploitation team and later charged with producing and transmitting child abuse material, NT Police said.


A 42-year-old Humpty Doo man was apprehended at a Palmerston shopping centre Sunday morning by the joint anti-child exploitation team and later charged with producing and transmitting child abuse material, NT Police said.

Several malnourished and dead dogs were discovered by police at a Tennant Creek property on Wednesday while attending on another matter that has led to animal cruelty charges against a 57-year-old man in a scene police described as “confronting” for officers, with the number of dead dogs on the property “incredibly concerning”.

A 25-year-old Palmerston man has been arrested and charged after a raid of his home yesterday uncovered child abuse and animal sexual abuse material, NT Police said.

Detectives investigating the death of a man who was struck by a vehicle on the inbound lane of the Stuart Highway at Pinelands on Friday, February 27, have appealed to the public for witnesses or dashcam footage of the incident.

UPDATED: NT Police have located 20-year-old Murphy Ward who escaped from Corrections while in the custody of private firm G4S on Monday afternoon, but police had failed to inform the public that Ward was recently charged with a series of violent crimes, including aggravated assault and choking, strangling and suffocating.

A woman suffering “visible head injuries” is in hospital in a serious condition after being struck by a car in Tennant Creek this morning, with two men in their 20s later arrested, NT Police said.

A 15-year-old male has been arrested in connection to the alleged assault of a female staff member at Tennant Creek High School on Monday, NT Police said.

A 30-year-old man was arrested Sunday morning with an “edged weapon” in his possession after he allegedly approached a woman heading to her car in an underground car park at a Palmerston shopping centre before assaulting her while trying to take her car, NT Police said.

An NT Police auxiliary officer has been suspended with pay after being charged with obtaining a financial benefit by deception, police said in a statement.

UPDATED: An NT Police officer fired three shots at a Mazda ute that was being driven towards him and a police vehicle at considerable speed in Alice Springs overnight, a video released by police shows, with 10 charges now laid against the 38-year-old driver. WATCH THE VIDEO

Territory police officers want to know why the entire NT Police top brass is currently under investigation by the Australian Federal Police, the union representing the cops has said, while questions about perceived conflicts of interest in the investigation have been ignored by all involved.

Jake Danby, the step-nephew of Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby, who bragged to friends and family about killing an Aboriginal man in a hit-and-run, had his sentence increased on Friday to two years home detention following an appeal of the original sentence.