A female police officer was sent to hospital after an altercation with five females in Yarrawonga yesterday afternoon, in an incident that saw the “aggressive” females allegedly surrounding the officers at one point, with pepper spray deployed and damage to a police vehicle, the NT Police said.
NT Police are searching for a man wearing “open-toe fluffy slippers” and no pants who allegedly performed an indecent act while chasing a woman on a run in Alice Springs on Monday afternoon.
UPDATED: A 15-year-old is in police custody and has been charged after allegedly stabbing another teen at the Royal Darwin Show on Saturday night in front of dozens of show-goers, with the victim rushed to hospital in a “serious condition”, NT Police said.
A 23-year-old man has died in a head-on collision involving a Honda CRV and a road train on Sunday afternoon, 14 km north of Katherine on the Stuart Highway, NT Police said.
NT Police have confirmed they did not undertake full searches of several potential disposal sites of Peter Falconio’s remains mapped out for them by a world-leading expert in “no-body” homicide cases in 2007, and have yet to action the entire scope of the search report.
Four teens have been arrested and another is on the run after a night of chaos through Darwin’s northern suburbs, that started with a car-jacking at knife point, followed by a ram raid of a bottle shop and police later having to abandon a high-speed chase down Tiger Brennan Drive after the teens “attempted to ram” a police vehicle, NT Police said.
A group of four youths are on the run after throwing rocks at an 84-year-old man and his vehicle after he refused to give them a lift Tuesday morning, NT Police said, ultimately stealing his Hilux and assaulting him.
UPDATED: An 18-year-old woman was airlifted to Royal Darwin Hospital on Sunday afternoon after being stabbed in the head with a spear, NT Police said, with the alleged 21-year-old male offender who is known to her arrested after initially going on the run.
The tragic death of a 4-year-old girl who was reportedly killed by a falling palm tree in a Darwin northern suburb on Saturday afternoon is still under investigation by NT Police, who issued a statement on Monday to correct that the girl was four and not seven as initially reported.
UPDATED: A Toyota troop carrier that was involved in a fatal road crash that killed a 76-year-old male tourist near Delemere on Wednesday was stolen from a residence in Katherine, NT Police revealed on Thursday.
A 34-year-old man has been arrested and charged with sexual intercourse with a child under 10, in what NT Police have described as a “confronting investigation” involving a “very young victim”.
Five senior police officers who lied to the coronial inquest about the existence of racist awards in the TRG that the Coroner described as “grotesque examples of racism” in her final report will have no action taken against them, the NT Police have said, while former constable Zach Rolfe has accused the officers of colluding “with the support of some members of the NT Police executive”.
