Three teenagers have been arrested after one allegedly swung a knife at a police officer Friday night and was pepper sprayed, NT Police say.


Three teenagers have been arrested after one allegedly swung a knife at a police officer Friday night and was pepper sprayed, NT Police say.

Resentment towards cops in the Northern Territory appears to be continuing to fester, with a staggering six NT police officers assaulted in the past five days.

Two Northern Territory Police officers have allegedly been spat on by an Alice Springs teenager after being arrested, spurring the NT Police association to call for mandatory minimum sentencing for anyone found assaulting police and emergency workers.

NT Police have arrested three people who allegedly established a business called ‘NT Debt Recovery Group’ and were sending out fraudulent debts and invoices for payment throughout the Darwin region.

A teenager who was on a good behaviour bond and was part of a gang that set upon a victim “like a pack of mongrel dogs” in Darwin City, bashing him and stealing $450 worth of property, has received a suspended sentence.

The man injured during a gas tank explosion at a Pinelands business yesterday was attempting to extinguish the blaze when another blast inflicted burns to his face.

Police have charged a Darwin man with processing and transmitting child abuse material they said he shared on social media.

An eight-year-old boy died Sunday after allegedly falling from a caravan being towed in Katherine, NT Police say.

A drug-smuggling grandmother who was caught by a sniffer dog trying to sneak $75,000 worth of cannabis onto Groote Eylandt has been jailed for two months.

An horrific rock-throwing attack on nearly 20 cars on Tiger Brennan Drive near Bayview Sunday night has left dozens shaken and nursing injuries.

The son of a 61-year-old police sergeant who was sacked over printing singlets with an “offensive” reference to the Yuendumu shooting is among almost 20 police personnel under investigation over their alleged knowledge of the singlets.

The former operations manager of a Northern Territory freight company has been jailed for 28 days after using the company to import at least two pounds of cannabis into the NT.