A 32-year-old Queensland woman was arrested with two kilos of meth allegedly concealed in her checked luggage at the Darwin Airport early Thursday morning as part of a Joint Organised Crime Task Force drug operation, with a 25-year-old man allegedly waiting to pick up the woman also arrested, NT Police said.
Two youths who allegedly carjacked a man at knifepoint at a Wishart service station early Wednesday morning, used the stolen Toyota Yaris to later ram the gate of a home in Malak, NT Police said, before eventually turning the vehicle on police during a pursuit.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has failed to front the public following the release of the damning Justice Alan Blow review into NT Police senior employment practices, issuing a statement to claim she will accept the report’s six recommendations, but making no mention of why she failed to set it up as a proper inquiry, which the NT Police Association said fell “well short of what was expected”.
A 79-year-old German national who was part of a tour group at Nitmiluk National Park was found dead after leaving camp on foot on Monday morning and failing to return, NT Police said.
A 4WD owned by a member of the public allegedly rammed into the side of a stolen ute with children inside, including a 16-year-old driver, in an attempt to stop it after a two-hour dangerous driving rampage that included a campdraft camp in Tennant Creek where it almost ran over three small children, sources have told the NT Independent, while NT Police has provided an account of how the stolen ute was stopped that does not match the photographs of the damaged vehicles.
A man is in a serious condition after being struck in a hit-and-run at Docker River on Sunday morning while the alleged offender still on the run, NT Police said.
The Justice Alan Blow inquiry into senior police appointments under former police commissioner Michael Murphy has found the promotion and appointment processes “have many shortcomings” that need to be addressed immediately, while also exposing a war within the senior ranks of the NT Police over unresolved allegations of favouritism, bias and “undeclared or unmanaged conflicts of interest” that is continuing to affect the police’s culture and morale.
Three men have been charged for allegedly stealing up to 400 head of cattle from a station in central Australia in August, NT Police said.
A 60-year-old man has been arrested for alleged historical child sexual offences that occurred in Fannie Bay between 2002 and 2007, NT Police said.
The death of woman at Casuarina is being investigated after a postmortem examination identified unexplained internal injuries, NT Police said.
A firearms dealer in his 80s has had more than 240 guns and various gun parts seized by police for alleged multiple breaches of the NT Firearms Act, which followed a loaded revolver discharging while police were inspecting it, NT Police said.
Several people at a Darwin bar were left to deal with the effects of contamination from pepper spray after a 36-year-old woman discharged the legally purchased canister during a brawl with a 21-year-old woman early Sunday morning, NT Police said, which also involved a bystander struck with a stool that was thrown by one of the women.
