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GAMING STAFFER AND PATRON ARRESTED OVER ARMED ROBBERY

Posted on September 29th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Police have arrested a female employee and regular patron of the Sydney Junction Hotel over a brazen armed robbery earlier this month that netted tens of thousands of dollars. Around 3.40am, on Friday, 12 September workers at the Sydney Junction

PUB MANAGER CONVICTED OVER SEX CRIMES

Posted on September 29th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
A disgraced former manager of the Roebuck Bay Hotel in WA’s wild northwest has been convicted of a slew of sex crimes after abusing his position of power at the outback pub. 51-year-old Stewart Patrick Burchell, who ran the well-known

GANGLAND SHOOTING AT SYDNEY PUB

Posted on August 20th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Sydney has been rocked by a “brazen” gangland-style shooting at the Harold Park Hotel that left one man dead and another fighting serious gunshot wounds. Around 6.40pm on Sunday emergency services were called to the pub in Forest Lodge, to

GOLDEN FLEECE ARMED ROBBERY INSIDE JOB

Posted on June 13th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
A gaming manager is one of three people being sentenced over the staged theft of $320K from the Golden Fleece in Melton, after police found instructions and a map in the defendant's homes. According to documents presented in Court, in

TEEN SHOT IN WEST END PUB

Posted on June 13th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Police have begun no less than two investigations after a 17-year-old girl armed with a knife was shot in the beer garden of a Townsville pub. Responding to a report that a young woman was armed and making threats, officers

JUSTICE TWIST IN BOOZE BREACH BATTLE

Posted on May 30th, 2025 by Jane Louise
In January, PubTIC reported that Emanuel Brian Dillon, director of two Western Australian pubs, dodged a bullet to stay in business. He copped $140K in fines for what police allege were more than 2,700 breaches of the Liquor Act between

HEROIC PATRONS SUBDUE ARMED ATTACKER

Posted on May 28th, 2025 by Jane Louise
Just before 8pm last Saturday a dramatic scene unfolded in a Stockton pub as an alleged armed robber was overcome by patrons at The Boatrowers Hotel, following a stabbing. A 30-year-old man, allegedly armed with several weapons, entered the pub

GAY ICON THE IMPY TAGGED WITH SWASTIKA

Posted on April 28th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Police are on the hunt for a person who vandalised multiple sites in Sydney’s inner west with an illegal Nazi symbol, including Universal Hotels’ lauded and recently listed Impy in Erskineville. Offensive iconography and words were found on a number

SIR CHARLES IN THE SHADOW OF A CRIME

Posted on February 24th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
The historic Sir Charles Hotham Hotel was the scene of a violent assault last week that resulted in the death of an elderly man, and his alleged assailant arrested. The 82-year-old man had reportedly been staying in the pub’s accommodation

JUSTICE SERVED AFTER ASSAULT ON MANAGER

Posted on January 20th, 2025 by Jane Louise
Justice has been served on a Gladstone man who assaulted the Central Lane Hotel’s manager in 2024. At 3:30am one September morning, former truck driver Jordan Dallas King, 23, entered the hotel’s gaming area and demanded to be served a