UPDATE: A 23-year-old man was shot in Coconut Grove on Monday night and taken to hospital with injuries to his legs, NT Police said, in what they called a “targeted attack” by a group who fled the scene, but were later arrested.


UPDATE: A 23-year-old man was shot in Coconut Grove on Monday night and taken to hospital with injuries to his legs, NT Police said, in what they called a “targeted attack” by a group who fled the scene, but were later arrested.

A woman was allegedly stabbed in the head by her partner in a community outside of Alice Springs overnight while in an unrelated incident a man was allegedly stabbed on a street in the town by a man he knew who had pulled up in a car before driving off, NT Police said.

Three teenagers were arrested after allegedly trying to break into an Alice Springs supermarket with an angle grinder, which woke up the neighbours who called the police, NT Police said.

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested after he allegedly broke into a house in Tennant Creek and choked an 85-year-old man and then tried to hit him with a frying pan, NT Police said.

A stolen Mercedes motorhome discovered in a Darwin CBD street with ammunition inside led NT Police to uncovering meth, a fake firearm and stolen IDs and bank cards belonging to more than 50 victims.

WATCH THE VIDEO: A video of prominent Darwin silk Jon Tippett recorded in the police watch house shortly after he was arrested for drunkenly crashing into a police car last November, shows him repeatedly laughing at the situation while asking officers to “make it a whole lot easier” on him, the NT Independent can reveal.

A man who was allegedly chased from the Alice Springs Hospital by police because of an outstanding arrest warrant for domestic violence, allegedly threatened to burn down the house he was holed up in during what police described as a siege.

UPDATED: Two 30-year-old men reportedly escaped from an NT Corrections facility in Nhulunbuy on Saturday night, with Corrections not discovering until the next morning that a third inmate, aged 34, had also escaped the facility around the same time, NT Police said. The trio were arrested on Monday.

UPDATED: Four male youths who escaped from a “supported accommodation” facility in Alice Springs on Wednesday night around 10pm, have been apprehended, the NT Police said on Friday afternoon.

A dangerous driving incident that saw a man allegedly flee police while high on methamphetamine ended when the NT Police, assisted by its drone unit, apprehended the 33-year-old man in Alice Springs late last night.

High-profile Darwin silk Jon Tippett is facing multiple charges after he allegedly crashed into the back of a police car while driving over the legal blood alcohol limit late last year, the NT Independent can reveal.

A 72-year-old man has been arrested and charged for alleged historical child sex offences committed in Berry Springs between 2010 and 2015, NT Police said.