A man who allegedly rammed a Tasmania Police station in April and later used a vehicle to damage multiple speed cameras is set to appear in court. The 26-year-old from Clarendon Vale has been charged with destroying property after allegedly reversing into the front doors of the Clarence Plains Police Station in April, resulting in […]
Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 11:35amPolice will return to the Duckhole Lake area in Tasmania’s south this week as the search for a missing Launceston man continues six years after he was last seen. Bruce Fairfax, who had Parkinson’s disease, went missing while out bushwalking in the Strathblane area with his wife on Saturday, October 14, 2017. The couple separated, with […]
Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 10:00amHobart has once again been identified as the national hotspot for the use of multiple drugs, according to waste water analysis. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission’s latest analysis of wastewater, based on samples taken at 55 sites across the country, captured 14.1 million Australians, or 55% of the population. It found that Tasmania had the […]
Wed Nov 8, 2023 - 10:50amA former president of Little Athletics Tasmania won’t go to jail despite stealing over $10,000 from the organisation’s fundraising account. Rhonda Ruth O’Sign, 63, had been involved with the volunteer group for nearly 30 years, starting as a publicity officer and later becoming president for a decade – a position she held while the thefts occurred […]
Wed Nov 8, 2023 - 3:00amPolice are investigating a potentially deliberate fire that destroyed a house in Campania late last night. The fire broke out at a White Kangaroo Road address shortly after 12:30am on Tuesday morning. Firefighters arrived to find the residence fully engulfed in flames and despite their efforts, the house was completely destroyed. Police say no one […]
Tue Nov 7, 2023 - 1:55pmPolice have made “one of the biggest seizures of methylamphetamine and cocaine in Tasmania’s history”, preventing 6kgs of illicit drugs from entering the state. Tasmania Police and the Australian Federal Police intercepted the drugs in a 26-year-old’s vehicle as he arrived into Devonport from Geelong on the Spirit of Tasmania on Friday night. Drug detection […]
Tue Nov 7, 2023 - 8:43amA West Coast man, allegedly responsible for a ‘reckless’ fireworks display over Zeehan homes during the weekend, has been charged. The 41-year-old Zeehan local was arrested and charged on Sunday night after fireworks were set off over residential houses in the small town, police say. He was again arrested and charged on Monday after further fireworks […]
Mon Nov 6, 2023 - 3:10pmA young Hobart man who went on two separate punching sprees after a night of consuming ‘far more alcohol than he usually did’ in Salamanca has avoided prison. Jonty Bruce Penneyston, then 23, was “out of character” when he assaulted two people in the early hours of Saturday, 11 June last year, according to passing […]
Mon Nov 6, 2023 - 2:05pmThe man allegedly responsible for the armed robbery of a cash register at a Devonport business on Wednesday has been charged. The 39-year-old man was arrested and taken into custody on Thursday morning, the day after fleeing the William Street newsagency. Police said at the time he was ‘assisting officers in their investigations’. A short […]
Thu Nov 2, 2023 - 11:00pmTasmania Police are currently searching the Devonport area for a man believed to have committed a robbery this morning. The man is described as being in his mid to late 30s, with slight ginger facial hair, wearing light grey pants, a grey hoodie, black gloves, dark sunglasses and black shoes with a white logo. Police […]
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