Police are investigating a violent armed robbery last week at the Commonwealth Hotel in Cooks Hill where a worker was seriously injured. Officers from Newcastle City Police District were called to the premises at the intersection of Union and Bull Streets around 4.45am on Tuesday morning, in response to a report of an armed robbery […]
A hotel patron has been charged over the ‘coward punch’ death of a security guard, following an alleged assault outside a Sutherland pub. Emergency services were summoned to the Royal Hotel around 2am Sunday morning, told 30-year-old security guard Mousa Alzaher had been injured. The guard had allegedly been punched in the head by a
Detectives in Victoria are investigating the theft of more 200 empty kegs from outside pubs in suburbs of inner-Melbourne. Opportunistic thieves have been swiping the empties throughout the past five months, and possibly longer. Each keg unit is valued at about $150, making the collective theft more than $30k. Yarra detective Sergeant Ryan Forde suggests
A man has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing another man within minutes of arriving at a Gold Coast pub. According to police, a 26-year-old man and 30-year-old woman, believed to be his girlfriend, arrived at McGuire’s RQ’s Tavern at Robina on Thursday night and proceeded straight to the smoking area, where arguments commenced
Police are seeking two men in relation to a violent altercation in a venue in Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday morning when three men were stabbed, leaving one in critical condition. Around 6am at busy adult entertainment club Men’s Gallery, on the corner of Lonsdale and King streets, opposite the Colonial Hotel and diagonally opposite the
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. A masked man in a hoodie gets out of the passenger side holding a shotgun,
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 was in Mount Gambier for work reasons. The court heard Williams was at the Jens
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 the fire that engulfed the formerly popular pub in the NSW Southern Tablelands. Built during
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 Punchbowl Road. The perpetrator is believed to have left the scene before police arrived, but
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 the hotel on Gowrie Drive at Whyalla, around four hours north-east of Adelaide. He reportedly
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