A Tiwi man has been arrested after allegedly being caught with child abuse material on his phone, NT Police have said.


A Tiwi man has been arrested after allegedly being caught with child abuse material on his phone, NT Police have said.

A man has been charged for going armed in public, assault, and discharging a firearm causing danger, after allegedly shooting a gun into the air before being disarmed by another person in an unnamed Aboriginal community in West Daly, NT Police said.

OPINION: As Territorians await a coronial inquiry into the circumstances around the death of Kumanjayi Walker and details of the flawed police procedures that led to Constable Zach Rolfe being in that house in Yuendumu, one thing is certain: the NT Police cover-up is an internal arse-covering exercise of epic proportions, writes former NT Police tactical unit boss Carey Joy.

NT Police have arrested an 18-year old male for allegedly stealing a Toyota Hilux with two others in Alice Springs Saturday night that smashed into a campervan while attempting to overtake it.

A fatal single-vehicle crash in Bees Creek early Saturday that claimed the life of a 24-year-old man and sent two others to hospital is being investigated by NT Police.

A 25-year-old man has been arrested and charged with one count of sexual assault after allegedly assaulting a 19-year-old woman while working at a remote resort in Central Australia last month, NT Police said.

Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has bizarrely released small parts of a controversial speech he gave to firefighting recruits to select media outlets as part of a strategy to reject claims that he said firefighters “are all greedy” for claiming overtime and that he was “coming after” a senior fire officer who is also a union delegate.

UPDATED: NT Police have formally charged 23-year-old Josh Mason and his 50-year-old mother Deborah Mason with a string of offences including misconduct with a corpse and attempting to pervert the course of justice for their alleged involvement in a hit-and-run on the Stuart Highway that killed a woman and severed her leg on Monday night.

A man and his mother have been arrested in connection to the death of a pedestrian on the Stuart Highway near Coolalinga, in a gruesome scene that police were only aware of after the victim’s leg was discovered on the side of the road by a passing motorist on Tuesday morning.

A group of youths who allegedly assaulted a service station employee and tried to steal items from the Stuart Highway store in Parap came back later in the night to threaten the assaulted staffer with a knife, NT Police said.

NT Police suspect a human leg found along the Stuart Highway on Tuesday near Coolalinga was likely the result of a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian, but have no idea where the person missing part of their leg might be.

Three youths who allegedly stole an unknown number of guns from a remote police station in Central Australia on Sunday have been arrested, NT Police said late on Tuesday afternoon.