Two 14-year-olds, a 15-year-old, and a 16-year-old have been charged with aggravated burglary and other charges relating to alleged property offending in Tennant Creek over the last two weeks, while extra officers have been sent to the town for an unspecified period of time, NT Police said.
The reward for information that leads to police finding missing woman Angie Fuller has been doubled to $500,000, NT Police said.
A 47-year-old man has been charged with murder following a more than three-year-long investigation into the suspicious death of a woman who was first found unconscious on a Katherine street corner in August 2022.
A 27-year-old man has been charged with murder in relation to the suspicious death of his female partner 10 days ago, NT Police said.
NT Police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in her 20s early Sunday morning on a street in Alice Springs, before stealing the woman’s handbag and fleeing the scene, but did not provide a description.
Several 3D-printed firearms and silencers, as well as 3D-printed ammunition and magazines, were seized during a joint police raid at a Nhulunbuy property this week as part of a wider investigation cracking down on privately manufactured firearms, police said.
NT Police are warning retailers and the public to be on the lookout for counterfeit $50 and $100 notes circulating across the Territory, after seizing the equivalent of $19,000 in fake cash since September.
NT Police have launched a 10-week operation to address “likely increased activity” in Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Katherine – presumably criminal activity – over the school holiday period with the new operation set to run until early February.
A 33-year-old male driver under the alleged influence of meth was arrested in Bakewell by the NT Police’s Fugitive Taskforce on Monday afternoon, with police allegedly finding a loaded 12-gauge shotgun, balaclava and gloves in the man’s car.
Former Litchfield mayor Doug Barden was bailed on Monday after spending the weekend in the Palmerston watch house following the NT Police laying 10 charges against him, including aggravated assault, ‘choking, strangling or suffocation’ and numerous firearms offences.
A Humpty Doo school went into lockdown Monday morning after a 35-year-old man with a crossbow allegedly made threats against the school, NT Police said.
At least two people were initially trapped in a Darwin CBD building Wednesday afternoon after a fire broke out on the 10th floor of the Cavanagh Street structure, but the pair were able to get out with no injuries reported.
