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GAMING STAFFER AND PATRON ARRESTED OVER ARMED ROBBERY

Posted on September 29th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Police have arrested a female employee and regular patron of the Sydney Junction Hotel over a brazen armed robbery earlier this month that netted tens of thousands of dollars. Around 3.40am, on Friday, 12 September workers at the Sydney Junction

GOLDEN FLEECE ARMED ROBBERY INSIDE JOB

Posted on June 13th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
A gaming manager is one of three people being sentenced over the staged theft of $320K from the Golden Fleece in Melton, after police found instructions and a map in the defendant's homes. According to documents presented in Court, in

HEROIC PATRONS SUBDUE ARMED ATTACKER

Posted on May 28th, 2025 by Jane Louise
Just before 8pm last Saturday a dramatic scene unfolded in a Stockton pub as an alleged armed robber was overcome by patrons at The Boatrowers Hotel, following a stabbing. A 30-year-old man, allegedly armed with several weapons, entered the pub

MEN ARRESTED OVER MULTIPLE PUB ARMED ROBBERIES

Posted on October 28th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Police have arrested and charged two men over a series of crimes, hitting seven pubs in Sydney and the mid-north coast with attempted and mostly successful armed robberies. It is alleged that around 10.20am Monday, 26 August, an armed hold-up

POLICE INVESTIGATE SERIES OF ARMED ROBBERIES

Posted on September 13th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Police are appealing for information from the public on a series of surprisingly similar armed robberies on hotels, in Adelaide and south-western Sydney. Reportedly two men, armed with a handgun and a knife and with their faces covered, rushed the

POLICE SWOOP ON PATRON BANDIT

Posted on July 5th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
A man faced Court this week over a violent armed robbery of a Lyneham pub on the weekend, using a knife to intimidate staff and making off with cash and alcohol. According to a police statement, around 9.40pm on Saturday

ARMED BANDIT ARRESTED IN DUMPSTER

Posted on May 10th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Police tracked down and arrested a man in a dumpster, accused of an alleged armed robbery at a western Sydney pub in the early hours of Wednesday. Around 12.40am on 8 May police received reports of an armed robbery at

POLICE ARREST MAN OVER COMMY ARMED ROBBERY

Posted on March 8th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
An arrest has been made following the investigation of a violent armed robbery last month, where two masked Caucasian men left an employee of the Commonwealth Hotel Newcastle seriously injured. On 28 February at 4:24am, it has been alleged that

POLICE HUNT COMMY BANDITS

Posted on March 4th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
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

POLICE SEEK GROVE BOTTLESHOP BANDITS

Posted on August 7th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
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.