A motorcyclist was charged for driving 180km/h through Adelaide River and an alleged uninsured drug-head was picked up on Easter Sunday, after swerving at cars in a Nightcliff roundabout while allegedly high and with “illicit substances” in his possession, police said, as part of the NT Police’s high-visibility long weekend traffic blitz from Darwin through Alice Springs.
Two men were killed when the van they were in crashed and caught on fire at Jabiru, while a female pedestrian was killed at Nhulunbuy.
A man who attacked another man with a knife while trying to get into his house was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital with injuries NT Police did not explain, while one of his victims was also taken to hospital after being cut with the weapon.
NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has not ruled out deploying the Territory Response Group to assist in Alice Springs, despite preliminary ICAC findings that the elite group of officers engaged in racist conduct, while sources say the TRG members will most likely be deployed as general duties officers to prevent stoking racial tensions in the community.
A group of youths or young adults allegedly threatened staff at the Karama Tavern with edged weapons, with one youth allegedly assaulting a staff member, NT Police said.
UPDATED: Chief Minister Eva Lawler has declared a youth curfew as part of an “emergency situation” for Alice Springs after a day of rioting in the troubled town, pledging to send more police officers to restore order over the next 14 days.
Alice Springs Mayor Matt Paterson has called for the Lawler Government to hand responsibility for Alice Springs over to the federal government if it cannot keep residents safe, and once again called for Australian Federal Police or the Australian Army to be brought in, after what he said was the scariest thing he had ever witnessed on the streets on Tuesday.
A 15-year-old boy is facing 30 charges after allegedly repeatedly breaking into a government building across three days with a group of unknown co-offenders, damaging it, and stealing credit cards that they used across Palmerston, NT Police said.
A man allegedly bashed his partner in a Darwin street and lit the clothes she was wearing on fire, with witnesses having to extinguish the woman’s clothes, NT Police said.
Three men have been charged in Daly River for allegedly stealing a car in Darwin, and then stealing food and drink from a Noonamah business, NT Police said.
A 32-year-old man has been arrested over a fatal alleged hit-and-run in Alice Springs, which is being treated as a death in custody, NT Police said.
A woman in Wadeye suffered a collapsed lung and was flown to Royal Darwin Hospital after being stabbed in the back multiple times with scissors on Sunday, NT Police said.
