The Coffee Club in Katherine was ransacked overnight by a group of offenders in a stolen Toyota Hilux from the showgrounds, NT Police said, but police media did not report that the intruders reportedly returned to the cafe around 7:15am this morning, where they allegedly attacked staff, the owner and customers, with one staff member reportedly sent to hospital.
Overcrowding in the Palmerston Police station watch house hit ‘crisis point’ on Monday with 92 people in custody, including 76 Corrections prisoners, the police union has said, which is a statement at odds with the government’s claim in March that all the Corrections prisoners had been moved.
A man has been charged for allegedly physically and sexually assaulting his ex-partner in a home, and then on the side of the Stuart Highway near Howard Springs, NT Police said.
A 46-year-old Darwin man was arrested on Monday morning for multiple drugs and firearms offences after NT Police detectives, the dog unit and Australian Border Force personnel intercepted him at a Katherine service station following his return from Queensland, police said, while also executing search warrants at his home and business.
EXCLUSIVE: The five senior NT Police officers who lied to the Coroner about racist TRG awards approached the president of the police association before filing their false sworn statements, who advised all of them not to file the misleading documents, multiple sources have said, raising further questions about collusion and who ordered the officers to make the statements.
A 42-year-old man who allegedly beat his partner on Dick Ward Drive in Coconut Grove on Saturday afternoon has been arrested, while another man who sexually assaulted a woman on the same street on Thursday night in an unrelated incident has been charged with attempted rape, NT Police said.
Chief Minister and Police Minister Lia Finocchiaro has remained silent for three days on the Coroner’s findings from the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, which found the NT Police exhibited the “hallmarks of institutional racism” and providing a series of recommendations for government and the police force, while the Opposition says Ms Finocchiaro has “failed to show leadership” during challenging times.
A 16-year-old male has been arrested for assaulting two police officers while trying to escape custody in Tennant Creek, NT Police said.
NT Police divers have recovered the body of a 57-year-old man who went missing after entering a plunge pool at Edith Falls north of Katherine around 3pm on Tuesday.
A large fight erupted in the Casuarina Centrelink offices on Monday afternoon, NT Police said, which witnesses said was so bad children and staff were forced to hide in a saferoom, with at least one man in his 20s suffering “blunt force injuries to his head”.
A 22-year-old man has had his charge upgraded to murder for allegedly stabbing a man in the chest in the Alice Springs city centre in May, NT Police said.
A 23-year-old man was arrested by the NT Police Monday night after testing positive for drug use following a pedestrian strike in Katherine East, police said, while a 14-year-old was arrested in connection to an axe robbery at a Katherine home last week.
