A 16-year-old male and two females, aged 15 and 21, have been arrested in connection with an aggravated robbery and an assault at a home that occurred in Nightcliff on Friday morning, NT Police said, amid claims of an increased police presence in the area.
A male youth under the age of 15 has been charged with indecent touching and attempted rape in connection to the assault of six females in the Darwin northern suburbs over a span of two weeks, NT Police said, but police did not explain why none of the incidents were reported publicly at the time they occurred to warn the public an alleged serial offender was sexually assaulting women.
A 43-year-old woman was killed early Friday morning after being struck by a vehicle while walking along the Stuart Highway, approximately 500 meters north of Virginia Road, NT Police said.
A woman has a serious eye injury after a brick was thrown through a side window of a vehicle she was a passenger in that was driving near the entrance to the Bagot community in Ludmilla, NT Police said.
A Darwin man is in hospital after shooting himself in the foot with a firearm he made, leading police to seize other ‘privately manufactured’ weapons and explosive detonation devices from his Moil home over the weekend.
A Corrections officer is in Royal Darwin Hospital after being assaulted in Holtze prison on Tuesday.
A 51-year-old man was arrested and is facing several charges after he allegedly pointed a rifle at people in a camping area at Gunn Point and threatened to kill them, NT Police said, which led to a raid of his home and eight other firearms being seized.
A woman was assaulted on a footpath in Malak yesterday morning, with the offender also indecently exposing himself to her, NT Police said.
A 20-year-old Katherine woman is facing charges for aggravated assault on an infant, NT Police said, while the baby is currently at Royal Darwin Hospital receiving medical treatment for injuries.
A man has been charged after allegedly swinging an axe at a man’s head in Alice Springs before slicing through his forearm, and another man has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the stabbing of a service station worker in the town NT Police said, while the agency is also looking for witnesses to the assault and robbery of an elderly woman on the streets of Katherine.
The NT Police force is urging Territorians to voluntarily submit their DNA to specific consumer genealogy databases, which police say could help provide answers for families and assist in identifying long-term missing individuals and solving cold cases, but failed to explain what limitations would be placed on the DNA’s usage.
Three women have been arrested in relation to an aggravated assault in Palmerston on Tuesday that saw another woman attacked with bottles and weapons, while a 17-year-old male was charged in connection to an aggravated robbery that occurred in Karama on Monday night.
