Two 16-year-old males have been arrested and charged in relation to 17 reported burglaries that occurred between 8am on October 30 and 4:30am the following day, NT Police said, with the teens bailed to appear in court.


Two 16-year-old males have been arrested and charged in relation to 17 reported burglaries that occurred between 8am on October 30 and 4:30am the following day, NT Police said, with the teens bailed to appear in court.

NT Police are searching for two males who allegedly threatened a Leanyer bottle shop employee with a pair of scissors before stealing alcohol and fleeing the scene.

Extra police officers have been sent to the Nauiyu community at Daly River after a “large disturbance” involving people fighting with weapons, a house fire, a vehicle fire, and a hit-and-run, NT Police said.

NT Police are searching for “a number of female youths” who allegedly robbed a woman at knife point at the Tennant Creek Transit Centre on Monday afternoon.

Three female police officers were assaulted over the weekend in three different incidents resulting in charges against “multiple offenders”, NT Police said.

The appointment of Natasha Fyles’s chief of staff’s brother-in-law as the Police Minister has rubbed the union representing the Territory’s police officers the wrong way, who say appointing the one-year backbencher to the major role has raised “real concerns” the government is not taking the police portfolio seriously.

NT Police are searching for a machete-wielding man who broke into an Alice Springs residence on Saturday afternoon and threatened a resident before fleeing the scene.

Human remains believed to be those of 35-year-old Jessica Louise Stephens who went missing for more than a week in Kakadu National Park have been recovered by the NT Police on Nourlangie Rock.

Fugitive Jermaine Austral, who has now been arrested, stabbed a man in the back in a home invasion the week before he allegedly broke into a Johnston house with a gun, sources have told the NT Independent – information the NT Police have not disclosed to the public.

A man, who dragged a woman from her car during the day on Wednesday before assaulting her then stealing her car, is still on the run, NT Police said.

The Fyles Government’s expectation that police can deal with record levels of crime and violence with just 14 additional police officers compared to last year is “farcical”, NT Police Association president Nathan Finn has said.

A 28-year-old Katherine man has been arrested and charged by NT Police with several offences relating to the alleged repeated sexual assault of children.