NT Police has released a description of a man wanted over an unspecified “serious crime”, two days after warning the public not to approach him, and four days after he allegedly broke into a house with a gun that ended with a failed attempt to arrest him by the Territory Response Group.
The NT Police misinformed the public when it described a man who had his eye gouged out by a stick at a service station earlier this month as a passerby, while the union representing store workers has called the Fyles Government out for putting workers’ safety at risk by turning mandatory safety audits of late night businesses into a voluntary scheme.
Police are conducting a land and air search in Kakadu National Park for a woman who is believed to have been there since Thursday but has not contacted her family in that time
Four people have been rescued from the sea, clinging onto their overturned catamaran, off the Tiwi Islands on Friday afternoon, NT Police said.
NT Police have warned the public not to approach a dangerous offender, after suppressing for almost 24 hours that he was on the run after breaking into a house with a gun on Sunday, who was once jailed over an outback crime spree committed while he was on the lam, which included him pulling a knife on a tourist.
A stolen ute was used to ram raid two Alice Springs businesses, and was later driven dangerously around the CBD with occupants throwing “objects” at police officers, NT Police said.
A 38-year-old driver who allegedly fled the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash in Howard Springs on Tuesday is now facing multiple charges, including hit-and-run causing death, NT Police said.
Three people involved in assaults on two security guards, as well as pulling an edged weapon on a third guard, and throwing an edged weapon at a fourth, are on the run after the attacks at a Darwin Shopping Centre on Friday afternoon, NT Police said while declaring the offenders were no longer a danger to the public at the shopping centre.
A woman has died in hospital following a single vehicle crash in Larapinta on Sunday, NT Police said.
NT WorkSafe has dropped six charges of reckless conduct risking death or injury against the partnership that owns Little Miss Korea restaurant a court has been told, but six counts of failure to comply with health and safety duties remain, the media has reported.
A man suffered serious injuries in a hit-and-run in Palmerston, NT Police has said.
A man, nine teenagers, and two 12-year-old boys, were arrested over the theft of 12 vehicles in Darwin this week, NT Police said but there was a possible almost 300km police chase that ended with officers stopping one of those vehicles with tyre spikes that was not explained by the agency.
