Crime

ALH’S WESTMEADOWS TAVERN UNDER SIEGE

Posted on March 2nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The Westmeadows Tavern saw squads of heavily-armed tactical police swarm the site in the early hours this morning, as two armed bandits were believed to be inside. Police were called to the ALH pub in northern Melbourne around 5am, receiving

POLICE BLITZ ON SUSPECTS IN GAMING ROOM ROBBERIES

Posted on September 30th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
An inter-agency taskforce involving more than 90 police officers executed coordinated raids at 58 properties, in relation to a scourge of gaming room robberies in South Australia. Police report armed robberies at 26 gaming rooms in the State since the

POLICE HUNT ARMED MAN OVER WEEKEND BURGLARY

Posted on July 22nd, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Central West District police are investigating an armed robbery and assault that took place early Saturday morning at an Orange hotel. A male cleaner at the Victoria Hotel in Orange was bailed up by an intruder, reportedly armed with a

PATRON FOILS BANDIT WITH MACHETE

Posted on July 8th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
CCTV caught a patron fighting off a machete-wielding bandit in a Gold Coast pub with a stool and a pot plant. Local Andrew Ormsby was enjoying an evening in the Mermaid Beach Tavern around 12:45am Friday when he heard a

PUB CARPARK MURDERS

Posted on July 5th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Two men are being hunted and one has been arrested over two stabbing deaths in licensed venue carparks. Paul Rock. Image: Qld police Around 6pm on Monday night (1 July) an argument between three men took place in the carpark

FATAL DRIVE-BY SHOOTING AT PRAHRAN NIGHTCLUB

Posted on April 15th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Melbourne police are hunting two suspects who fired shots into a crowd, killing a security guard, at Prahran late-night venue Love Machine. Shortly after 3am Sunday morning as people queued outside the Melbourne nightclub, a stolen black Porsche Cayenne drove

ROUGH WEEKEND IN VIC PUBS

Posted on January 21st, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Victorian pubs lament a rough weekend, as violence makes the headlines in at least two locations, leaving one man dead and several in police custody. Emergency services were called to a fight that broke out early Saturday morning on Campbell

POLICE SEEK GUNMAN IN QUEANBEYAN RAM-RAID

Posted on December 17th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Police have released CCTV footage of a ram raid armed robbery of the Hotel Queanbeyan in a bid to catch the bandit that fired at employees. The camera footage shows a dark grey Mitsubishi Triton ute reverse up to an

FOUR CHARGED OVER BRUTAL SUSTAINED PUB BRAWL

Posted on September 12th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Four men have been charged over a brutal beating they allegedly inflicted on another man, who was left for dead in the gutter in a Queensland town. Queensland Police released details of an altercation that took place around 11:40pm on

KINSELAS BREAK-IN LEAVES BANDIT SORE AND SORRY

Posted on July 11th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Sydney’s Kinselas was victim to a criminal mastermind, orchestrating a cunning entry into the Darlinghurst pub and making off with a bag of convenient booty. NSW Police report CCTV footage (below) caught a man around 4am yesterday (10 July) using