Five male teens as young as 13-years old and a woman have been arrested over break-ins and the theft of three vehicles in Darwin overnight, while an unspecified number of offenders who stole at least three other vehicles are still on the run, NT Police said.
A woman was assaulted and robbed while parking her car at her home in Marrara on Monday night, NT Police said.
Two men have been charged over an aggravated burglary of an Alice Springs business over the weekend, NT Police said.
A 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl have been charged over an aggravated robbery of a Parap service station last week, NT Police said.
A Daly River resident said police had to rescue six people from a house that was set on fire, including a seven-month-old baby, by the Jovi Boys gang and associates during a riot in the community, an assertion that was not originally accepted by NT Police media but later confirmed, while Police Minister Brent Potter said police had prioritised a protest at Lee Point rather than attending the community riots.
A man was arrested in Alice Springs for allegedly stealing a car in NSW and stealing fuel in Tennant Creek, NT Police said.
A 13-year-old boy who became separated from his classmates during a school camping trip near Ellery Creek Big Hole in the West MacDonnell ranges was found safe and well after a night spent in plunging temperatures, NT Police said.
Licensing Inspectors are being used side-by-side with police officers to monitor people buying alcohol in bottle shops in Alice Springs, after the removal of some police axillary liquor inspectors from the town, an NT Police press release with no spokesperson’s name on it has retrospectively announced.
A man is on the run after breaking into an Alice Springs house and threatening an elderly woman while robbing her, NT Police said.
A man was stabbed with a knife in the head, neck and chest by a stranger during an argument in a Casuarina shopping centre car park over damage to the alleged offender’s car, NT Police said.
A 46-year-old man suffered serious injuries after he was allegedly pushed from a second-floor balcony at a Smith Street residence on Sunday afternoon, police said.
Two groups of armed teens as young as 13, allegedly stole a taxi and two scooters across the Northern Suburbs over the weekend, NT Police said.
