A woman was allegedly assaulted in an attempt to steal her handbag by a group of youths while walking in Karama, NT Police said, while another incident involved a group of “at least four youth intruders” breaking into a Nightcliff business and stealing “a large quantity of alcohol”.
A Darwin Middle School teacher has been charged for allegedly hitting a student in class, NT Police said.
UPDATED: Police Minister Brent Potter says he and the Attorney General have called in the NT Anti-Discrimination Commission to investigate racist award certificates handed out by NT Police TRG members, but says there is no hypocrisy in him criticising the police members’ actions despite posting racist, homophobic and misogynistic material on social media around the same time the TRG awards were produced.
Two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old, who were chased by police after allegedly stealing a taxi they had been passengers in, have been arrested NT Police said.
There will be no disciplinary action taken against senior police officers who gave evidence to the coroner denying the TRG’s Nooguda award was racist until an investigation into the matter is complete, Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has said, which followed the lifting of a suppression order on the publication of certificates handed out with the award, including one that had an Aboriginal flag backdrop.
Two businesses in Katherine were robbed with weapons by different groups of kids, while a taxi driver in the town was bashed by a passenger and had his car stolen, NT Police said.
Two 18-year-old males have been charged in connection to a fatal crash in a stolen vehicle that occurred on Railway Terrace, Alice Springs last week, which killed another 18-year-old male in an incident that saw multiple youths leave the teen to die with no assistance after the crash.
NT Police is investigating a “physical altercation” between a teacher and a student at Darwin Middle School, the Education Department has confirmed.
A woman who broke into an Alice Springs house and pulled the resident from his wheelchair while robbing him, is still on the run, NT Police said.
NT Police were called to Mitchell Street on Thursday morning amid reports of an active shooter, which resulted in the temporary lockdown of Parliament House, before police determined there was no immediate threat to the public and that the report was likely false.
Police are searching for four females who allegedly stole liquor from a bottle shop at Casuarina Tuesday evening and threw a bottle at a security guard, as well as two males who allegedly stole a woman’s car after threatening her with a star picket in a Casuarina carpark.
Offenders who broke into and ransacked a Katherine school classroom are still on the run, NT Police said.
