Crime

POLICE SEEK GROVE BOTTLESHOP BANDITS

Posted on August 7th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
Police have released CCTV footage of an armed robbery at a Mackay hotel bottleshop, as investigations continue to find the perpetrators. The video shows a white Nissan Navara pull up in the drive-through lane around 8pm on Wednesday, 26 July.

TEEN DODGES JAIL OVER MACHETE ASSAULT IN PUB

Posted on August 4th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
A teenage removalist who bashed and threatened a man with a machete has been spared an immediate prison sentence, despite recent history with weapons and bad behaviour. Mount Gambier Magistrates Court saw the case of 19-year-old Seth Corey Williams, who

COMMERCIAL YASS DESTROYED IN SUSPICIOUS FIRE

Posted on May 24th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
Multiple fire crews battled to extinguish a blaze at the once legendary Commercial Hotel of Yass, resulting in the pub’s destruction and a neighbour arrested. Crews from Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) battled for more than five hours to extinguish

MAN STABBED OUTSIDE PUNCHBOWL PUB

Posted on May 1st, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
Arrests have been made after multiple stabbings in Punchbowl in recent days, including outside a hotel on Saturday night. Emergency services responded around 11.15pm to a report a man was being assaulted with a knife outside the Mirage Hotel, on

POLICE SEEK PUBLIC HELP IN MULTIPLE PUB CRIMES

Posted on February 3rd, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
Police have appealed for information from the public on several incidents of violence and robbery in pubs in New South Wales and South Australia. Around 1am Wednesday (1 February), a man armed with a machete entered the gaming room of

MAN SMASHES EGM AT ALH’S OLD SYDNEY HOTEL

Posted on November 21st, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Queensland Police have released CCTV footage in the hunt for the man who smashed a poker machine at ALH’s Old Sydney Hotel last month. Footage captured the incident around 4pm on 20 October at the pub, depicting a man verbally

EMPLOYEE AND ACCOMPLICE ARRESTED OVER HOTEL ROBBERY

Posted on November 14th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Two people have been charged following the alleged robbery of a Windsor hotel, with one of the alleged perpetrators an employee of the pub. Police were called to the Fitzroy Hotel in Sydney’s north-west about 9.30pm on Sunday, 18 September.

FORMER EMPLOYEE NABBED FOR STEALING CASH BOX

Posted on October 7th, 2022 by Jane Louise
Police have arrested a man after a brazen mid-morning robbery from a hotel in Cambridge Park. At around 10:45am on 24 September, a man entered the gaming room of the Overlander Hotel Motel Cambridge Park, a Top-150 gaming pub, and

MASKED ‘TRADIES’ PULL OFF DARING DAYTIME HEIST

Posted on August 8th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Police are investigating possible links between a rash of overnight burglaries at venues and the audacious daytime theft of a cash dispenser from a well-known Newcastle pub. During a busy period, around 4:30 on the afternoon of 4 July, three