Two interstate outlaw motorcycle gang members have been charged with affray and several counts of assault after an incident at Devonport McDonald’s last weekend. Police executed a search warrant at a rural property near New Norfolk where a Tasmanian OMCG member lives around 6am on Friday. During the search, two South Australian men aged 23 […]
Fri Aug 11, 2023 - 2:30pmPolice have seized seven guns, including three which have been confirmed as stolen, along with methamphetamine and cannabis from a Southern Tasmania home. Officers carried out a search warrant at a large residential property and nearby bushland in Dromedary on Thursday where they seized “stolen firearms, [a] large quantity of illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia,” Detective […]
Fri Aug 11, 2023 - 10:30amA ‘significant increase’ in inmate numbers at Risdon Prison has led to allegations of human rights laws being violated. The revelations have surfaced during a parliamentary inquiry focused on the state’s criminal justice system, with the prison system accused of contributing to criminal activity and disadvantage in Tasmania. TasCOSS CEO Adrienne Picone is among those who […]
Fri Aug 11, 2023 - 5:30amA teenager who allegedly went on a window-smashing spree in Burnie overnight has left behind ‘significant damage’. The 15-year-old girl believed to be behind the attack smashed multiple large panes of glass in the multi-storey car park and windows of other CBD businesses. The council, which recently shortened the car park’s opening hours due to […]
Thu Aug 10, 2023 - 12:55pmA coroner has found that a Tasmanian woman who was killed in an ATV crash last year was ‘travelling too fast’. 82-year-old Joy Hayes died after she lost control of the quad bike she was riding on Scenic Hill Road near Huonville on April 22, 2022. In his newly published findings, Coroner Simon Cooper said Hayes […]
Thu Aug 10, 2023 - 11:48amA Hobart couple has finally been reunited with their stolen jewellery, a decade after it was taken from their home. Back in 2013, Robin and Lynette experienced a burglary that resulted in the loss of their precious and sentimental items, including a safe filled with valuable possessions. For years, the belief was that their precious jewellery […]
Thu Aug 10, 2023 - 6:00amAfter using a positive COVID-19 test to skip court four times, a Tasmanian woman has been told by a judge that she must wear a mask for her next visits. In court yesterday, Kirra-Dhe Matson-Clarke claimed she had tested positive to COVID-19 and provided a phone number to appear by phone. Matson-Clarke is facing charges […]
Thu Aug 10, 2023 - 4:00amA Tasmanian member of an outlaw motorcycle gang has been arrested and charged after firearms, drugs, stolen vehicles and cash were found at a property in the Derwent Valley last week. The 56-year-old man is now facing close to 23 charges as the result of a coordinated national week of action as part of Taskforce Morpheus. […]
Tue Aug 8, 2023 - 10:47amA Tasmanian man who was killed in a motorcycle accident in his driveway in 2021 was unlicensed and impaired, a Coroner has found. Andrew Quentin Turner, 45, died as a result of multiple blunt traumatic injuries he sustained after colliding with a parked Nissan Patrol in his Rocherlea driveway on 14 August 2021. In his […]
Mon Aug 7, 2023 - 11:00amUPDATE: A 17-year-old teenager has been arrested after an alleged stabbing in Launceston this afternoon. Police say officers were alerted to the incident on Brisbane Street around 2:25pm on Friday. The male victim received serious, non life-threatening, abdominal injuries after he was allegedly wounded with a knife. “The victim was taken to the Launceston General Hospital by ambulance […]
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