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SUGARMILL PATRON ARRESTED FOR PULLING FAKE GUN

Posted on October 10th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A 23-year-old man has been arrested for drawing and waving around a fake gun in Keystone’s Sugarmill Hotel, in Kings Cross. Around 9:30 on Saturday night in the Sugarmill’s Kit & Kaboodle, the man allegedly pulled the replica pistol out

HOTEL OWNER CHARGED OVER ARSON FRAUD

Posted on September 5th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
The owner of the historic Premier Hotel gutted by arson in May has been suddenly charged with multiple offenses relating to the alleged fraud. In May news broke that a 125-year-old pub in Albany, Western Australia, was mostly destroyed after

IS THAT A TURKEY IN YOUR PANTS, OR …

Posted on August 15th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
An opportunistic thief was sprung in the act in ALH’s Vale Hotel, prompting threats with a handy steak knife and escape with a Wild Turkey down his pants. The would-be thief was seen trying to get into the cash register

BRUTAL 3-ON-1 PUB BRAWL LEAVES MAN IN COMA

Posted on August 1st, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Victorian police are investigating circumstances around a three-on-one brawl outside a Melbourne pub that put the one man in hospital with serious head injuries. Around 9:30 last Wednesday night a confrontation between one 42-year-old man and three others resulted in

EVICTED PATRON PUB ARSONIST CHARGED OVER DEATH

Posted on July 29th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A bikie has been charged with manslaughter and arson after setting fire to a Sydney pub and killing his mate in the process. Scott Keighran, 30, and Harley McKenna, 29, were evicted from O’Donoghue’s Irish Pub around 8pm on 9

MAN USES TO KEG TO BUST INTO PUB FOR A BEER

Posted on July 29th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
One determined Queensland patron was caught on CCTV using an empty beer keg to break in to a pub so he could get another beer. The drunk man was filmed throwing a keg at a side door of the Howl

ARMED ROBBERIES REEK OF DRUG DESPERATION

Posted on July 18th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Pubs in NSW and Queensland were victims of armed robberies by amateurs over the weekend, shocking victims with firearms to secure small amounts of cash. Just before midnight on Saturday, two men entered Spirit Hotels’ Hotel HQ in Logan, in

UPDATE: MELBOURNE PUB ARSON INSIDE JOB

Posted on July 15th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A fire that destroyed a new near-complete Melbourne pub last October was deliberately lit by the builder struggling to meet the opening deadline. Police investigated the arson attack, reported by Andrew Winston McMahon at the time as started by two

POLICE SEEK 2 MEN WHO BASHED HOTELIER AND SET HOTEL ON FIRE

Posted on May 25th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
[caption id="attachment_6127" align="alignright" width="330"] CCTV footage (see below) shows bandits dragging the hotel manager[/caption] Police are appealing to the public for information about two men that assaulted a hotel owner and set the building alight with people sleeping inside. Around