NT Police are tracking down almost 100 Territorians whose personal information was found included in documents for sale on dark web marketplaces.


NT Police are tracking down almost 100 Territorians whose personal information was found included in documents for sale on dark web marketplaces.

NT Police Acting Assistant Commissioner Bradley Currie has said enforcement of new emergency takeaway alcohol purchasing rules in greater Darwin would fall on bottle shop staff, but he did not rule out bringing in police liquor inspectors.

A citizen of the year has been sentenced to prison for two years after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old child last year.

A teenager in Alice Springs was tasered by the NT Police Friday night after allegedly charging at an officer “armed with an edged weapon” while attempting to escape arrest, police say.

Two men from Alice Springs have been charged in connection to an alleged assault of a 43-year-old man on September 4 that left him seriously injured on a driveway of a property on the East Side of town, NT Police said.

Residents of the Greater Darwin area will need to have proof of an address to buy alcohol this week, as the Director of Liquor Licensing uses emergency powers to target the secondary supply of alcohol.

More than a year after a 12-year-old girl was abducted at the Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival and sexually assaulted at a nearby playground, she and her family are still suffering “profound” psychological and emotional distress, a Darwin court has heard.

UPDATED: A teenager in an undisclosed East Arnhem community who allegedly threw spears at a police car suffered undisclosed injuries in the incident and is now facing assault and weapons charges, NT Police said.

The AFP executed a search warrant at a new government office building site late last week that will house hundreds of NT Health Department employees, as “part of an ongoing investigation”.

A report into the May prison riot that saw more than 20 inmates climb onto roofs, light fires and injure staff at the Darwin Correctional Centre has not been released to the public despite the Gunner Government having the findings since before the election, the Opposition says.

The trial of alleged Darwin gunman Benjamin Hoffmann has been set for March 29, 2021 and is expected to run for nine weeks.

A married father who attempted to violently rape a teenager in a Palmerston alleyway while his wife was in hospital expecting their second child has been jailed for 18 months.