About 300 people were involved in a “disturbance”, some fighting with weapons, in Wadeye on Sunday, with officers using chemicals to disperse them NT Police have said. But one police source has told the NT Independent allowing general duties officers to use CS gas is potentially dangerous.
A man who escaped from the Alice Springs watch house last week has been apprehended, the NT Police media unit says, but information about the escape was not publicly distributed by police in a media statement when it occurred.
Four 14-year-olds have been arrested and charged after allegedly stealing a car from the northern suburbs and using it to ramraid a bar in the Darwin CBD overnight before fleeing with a “large quantity of alcohol”, NT Police said.
Two more police officers were allegedly assaulted over the weekend in separate incidents in Alice Springs, including an incident where an officer was spat on by a 23-year-old man who had been blocked from purchasing booze and another involving a man sleeping on a trampoline, NT Police said.
NT Police are searching for one of the occupants of a stolen car that crashed into another car in Darwin City after running a red light and fleeing the scene just before 8:30am on Sunday morning.
A 20-year-old man fell almost 50-metres while hiking in Kakadu National Park on Thursday, and had to wait eleven hours to be rescued because he was in a deep ravine, NT Emergency Services have said.
Two men who allegedly attempted to smuggle 77 reptiles, including three venomous snakes, out of the Northern Territory in a small truck to Queensland have been charged, NT Parks and Wildlife have said.
Police have released an image of a group of youths they say they “wish to speak to” following reports of more than 30 car windows being smashed across Alice Springs over the past two days.
A 27-year-old man who allegedly robbed two elderly citizens at Casuarina shopping centres, including robbing one as the senior withdrew cash from an ATM, has been arrested and charged, NT Police said.
An 18-year-old woman has handed herself into police after allegedly driving a stolen car in two ram raids of two Alice Springs businesses overnight, NT Police have said.
NT Police have said a 15-year-old girl was expected to be summonsed for aggravated unlawful use of a motor vehicle following a crash in a stolen car in Marrara overnight during a police chase, while five other girls in the car, aged between 10 and 15-years old, will be dealt with under the Youth Justice Act.
An horrific commercial truck rollover on the Stuart Highway south of Alice Springs this morning has killed the 48-year-old driver, NT Police said.
