Crime

MAN BRINGS MACHETE TO PUB BRAWL

Posted on March 15th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
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

MARRICKVILLE’S ROYAL RAZED

Posted on December 8th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
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

PATRON HIT WITH AN AXE OVER POKIES WINNINGS

Posted on May 14th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
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

EVICTED MAN RETURNS IN HIS COMMODORE

Posted on August 10th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

JEALOUS BOYFRIEND JAILED OVER GLASSING

Posted on June 22nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

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