A manager and bartender from the Newcastle region have pleaded guilty to supplying drugs to patrons in the hotel. On the evening of 29 April, police with the Port Stephens Hunter Drug Unit allegedly observed Gareth Ian Wilkinson offering to sell 0.8g of cocaine for $300 to a patron of the Shoal Bay Country Club. […]
Police are investigating possible links between a rash of overnight burglaries at venues and the audacious daytime theft of a cash dispenser from a well-known Newcastle pub. During a busy period, around 4:30 on the afternoon of 4 July, three men arrived at the hotel and entered via a rear fire exit. All were dressed
A magistrate has spared a pub manager a conviction on drug charges in response to his contrition and because the scar on his record would jeopardise his livelihood. When 31-year-old Christopher Paul Tindal lost his job as a duty manager at Aushotel Group’s Orion Hotel in the first COVID pandemic shutdown, early 2020, he began
A family-owned business in Cairns has lodged a claim in the Supreme Court against the Reef Hotel and Westpac, for millions lost by a staff member who embezzled the money. Former employee of Down to Earth Demolitions, 59-year-old Wendy Ann Aspinall, pleaded guilty to defrauding the company of $3.16 million between 2007 and 2017. She
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One man is in custody and police are searching for another, following recent violent incidents in pubs. Emergency services were called to a pub in Camden around 8pm last Friday (17 June), where officers from Camden Police Area Command found a 30-year-old man that had been struck to throat with a schooner glass. He had
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Two Adelaide men have been sent to prison for robbing of a woman in her 80s of her pokies winnings after a big night at the local pubs. The men from Woodcroft in Adelaide’s south, 43-year-old Joobin Rafii and 42-year-old Nima Saboohian, were charged with robbery of the elderly victim, on 19 August, 2019. Eva
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Two teenagers are in critical condition following surgery for stab wounds sustained outside a Sydney pub on the weekend. A gathering of reportedly up to 300 people were celebrating a 22nd birthday at the Norfolk Hotel, on Cleveland Street, Redfern. Police were called around 3am to disperse the group, as they collected on the street.
Marking a somewhat macabre return to normality after two years in limbo, antisocial pub patrons around the country are finding fresh convictions for bad behaviour. A man allegedly stabbed another man outside a Canberra pub, but has been granted bail. 26-year-old Hayden Todkill had reportedly been at a birthday event on a party boat, in March. After the
The National Measurement Institute has begun sending inspectors to licensed venues around the country, as part of its latest round of measurement compliance measures. Beginning this week, the National Measurement Institute (NMI) is checking quantities on the sale of beer and prescribed spirits, as per its National Compliance Plan 2021-22, designed to ensure consumers get
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
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