An Ulverstone local has been arrested and charged following a targeted police raid. MDMA, cannabis, methylamphetamine and cash were allegedly uncovered during a search of his property on Thursday. Police say the 382 grams of MDMA seized had the potential for 3,800 individual street deals, transactions that will now never happen. The 34-year-old man will appear […]
Fri Aug 18, 2023 - 9:30pmA Richmond man had more than four times the legal alcohol limit in his blood when he slammed into a power pole and wrote off his car this afternoon. The 44-year-old driver was the sole occupant of the RAV4 when he crashed on Brinktop Road on Friday. Police at the scene told Pulse the crash […]
Fri Aug 18, 2023 - 4:00pmA Glenorchy woman who ‘recklessly’ burnt down her house after setting a couch on fire has avoided prison. Stephanie Oakford, 37, admitted to igniting the blaze that led to the destruction of her Housing Tasmania home on 18 June 2020. In the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Oakford pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawfully setting […]
Fri Aug 18, 2023 - 12:05pmA Tasmanian man will spend the next two and a half years in prison after he was found with more than 22,000 child abuse files. The 37-year-old Huonville man was identified by the United States National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children after uploading child abuse material to the internet in 2019. Following a joint AFP and […]
Fri Aug 18, 2023 - 8:00amTwo Tasmanian men have been charged with trafficking illicit drugs after police intercepted ‘several parcels’ from interstate containing 1kg of methylamphetamine and prescription drugs. Police say that as part of an investigation into the packages, officers searched a house yesterday and arrested the two Kings Meadows men. During the search, police also found a large quantity […]
Thu Aug 17, 2023 - 10:55amA 20-year-old woman has been charged over a crash that killed four horses and left five people with injures on the Batman Highway earlier this year. Seven months on from the 30 January crash, the Rowella woman is facing various charges including causing harm by negligent driving, not ensuring seat belt use, driving without due […]
Thu Aug 17, 2023 - 9:27amEnvironmental activists have chained themselves to forestry machines in Tasmania’s Florentine today in protest against native logging. The group, led by the Bob Brown Foundation, have “immobilised the logging machines that are destroying a giant tree filled forest”. They say Police have been called to the site and are now “evicting forest defenders”. In a […]
Wed Aug 16, 2023 - 12:00pmThe man accused of murdering Tasmanian teenager Shyanne-Lee Tatnell has made his second court appearance in Launceston this morning. 36-year-old Scottsdale man Christopher Jordan appeared before the magistrates court via video link where he did not enter a plea. He has been remanded in custody at Risdon Prison and is set to face court again on […]
Wed Aug 16, 2023 - 11:00amDrugs, cash and an imitation firearm have been seized following a police raid in Hobart yesterday. Police say officers targeted the home of a 48-year-old man on Tuesday, where they allegedly discovered a “significant amount” of methylampetamine, cash and the firearm. “The amount of ICE seized had the potential to put hundreds of people in […]
Wed Aug 16, 2023 - 10:01amA woman has been arrested over a deliberate fire that destroyed a Tea Tree house and car yesterday afternoon. The 44-year-old allegedly set the two-storey brick home on Grices Road on fire around 1:30pm on Tuesday. Fire investigators at the Tasmania Fire Service said the fire also spread to a nearby car, ‘totally destroying’ both […]
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