In the Courts

PUBLICAN DODGES JAIL AFTER CHEATING TABCORP TO PAY THE BILLS

Posted on May 13th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A NSW publican has narrowly escaped jail after being caught defrauding Tabcorp of nearly $45,000 in late 2015. Keith Douglas Cummings is the owner and licensee of the Candelo Hotel, in Candelo, near Bega. [caption id="attachment_5993" align="aligncenter" width="598"] Candelo Hotel,

QUEUES AT BRUNSWICK PUB FOR ICE AND COCAINE

Posted on May 4th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Managers from a Brunswick pub have appeared in Court over charges relating to “huge amounts” of drugs sold on the premises. The sale of drugs was reportedly so prolific customers had to queue outside the hotel’s office to purchase their

MELBOURNE PUB AND CLUB OPERATORS FACE DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES

Posted on April 22nd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Three men from two late-trading Melbourne music venues have been charged with drug trafficking offences, drawing attention to operator regulation in Victoria. Manager Paul Polito and Chris Lytras – believed to be the owner – of Brunswick’s Railway Hotel appeared

TEENAGER CHARGED OVER LAKE MACQUARIE GLASSING

Posted on April 4th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Police have confirmed a man has been charged with reckless wounding after he hit another man in the neck with a glass in a Lake Macquarie pub on Friday night. Lake Macquarie Local Area Command told PubTIC a 19-year-old man

PUB DEATH PERPETRATORS RELEASED EARLY ON PAROLE

Posted on March 9th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Two brothers jailed for a pub fight that killed a man have been released on parole after only 18 months in prison. Mitchell Clay Dowling and his half-brother Jay David Blazely were each sentenced to around two and a half

TAG-TEAM PUNCH-UP LEAVES OAKEY MAN IN COMA

Posted on March 7th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Police are appealing for witnesses to the assault of a man outside a pub that resulted in him being airlifted to hospital in a coma. Around 12:30 am on Sunday, local man Shane Smith got into an altercation with two

QLD HOTEL SECURITY GUARD FACES CHARGE OVER GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM

Posted on March 2nd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A security guard from a Surfers Paradise hotel appeared in court over the bashing of a man helping his drunk brother into his room. [caption id="attachment_5305" align="alignright" width="227"] Dennis Faulkner[/caption] Southport Magistrate’s Court heard the sorry tale of a man

FOSTER’S SUED IN US FOR BEING ‘UN-AUSTRALIAN’

Posted on January 15th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Foster’s in the USA is being sued for being ‘un-Australian’ after a fan of the beer discovered his drink was made in Texas. New Yorker Leif Nelson was reportedly ‘devastated’ to learn that his favourite lager, marketed in the States