A violent altercation involving weapons and sending six people to hospital took place in a pub in the Adelaide CBD over the weekend, with police now investigating links to gang violence. Around 1am on Sunday morning emergency services were called to a disturbance at the former Old Exchange Hotel, originally the Woodman’s Inn, now known as […]
A suspected arson attack has seriously damaged Lewis Hotels’ Royal Exchange Hotel in Marrickville. Around 20 people, including staff, patrons and residents in rooms upstairs, had to be evacuated via fire truck ladder through a window after the fire took hold in the stairwell. No-one was injured, but several had to be treated for the
A patron at a Parramatta pub has been hospitalised following an alleged robbery in the toilet. Emergency services were called around 11am Thursday to Parramatta’s Commercial Hotel, to reports of a robbery and injury to a man who was thought to have been struck with an axe. The 37-year-old man was in the pub’s toilets
Police were called to the Robina Pavilion after reports a man that had been evicted from the pub had returned, reversing his Commodore through the entrance. The incident took place Wednesday night, around 8pm, after the 27-year-old man was reportedly kicked out of the Gold Coast hotel for being too drunk. With his girlfriend in
A Perth pub-goer that smashed a glass into the face of another patron has been sent to prison for “grossly disproportionate” conduct. In October 2019 37-year-old David Grant Weir was drinking at ALH’s Brass Monkey Hotel in Northbridge with his girlfriend. Weir thought he saw another man put his arm around his girlfriend’s waist and
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 reports of an armed robbery in progress. First responders were met outside by a woman
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 start of the year. Fifteen offenders had already been detained and arrested in relation to
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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 knife and gun. He was tied up while the bandit ransacked the premises. Police believe
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 scream, and thought someone had won a major jackpot. Approaching the gaming room bar, he
Two men are being hunted and one has been arrested over two stabbing deaths in licensed venue carparks. Around 6pm on Monday night (1 July) an argument between three men took place in the carpark of Porters Plainland Hotel, west of Brisbane. The situation escalated, and 53-year-old Paul Rock sustained multiple stab wounds. Witnesses say
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