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POLICE SEEK PUBLIC HELP IN MULTIPLE PUB CRIMES

Posted on February 3rd, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
Police have appealed for information from the public on several incidents of violence and robbery in pubs in New South Wales and South Australia. Around 1am Wednesday (1 February), a man armed with a machete entered the gaming room of

EMPLOYEE AND ACCOMPLICE ARRESTED OVER HOTEL ROBBERY

Posted on November 14th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Two people have been charged following the alleged robbery of a Windsor hotel, with one of the alleged perpetrators an employee of the pub. Police were called to the Fitzroy Hotel in Sydney’s north-west about 9.30pm on Sunday, 18 September.

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

PUB MANAGER SUES ALH FOR $750K

Posted on October 12th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
A former manager at ALH’s Royal Hotel in Beenleigh is suing the group for around $750,000, claiming their failure to provide safe conditions resulted in her PTSD and ongoing disability. In a statement of claim filed in Beenleigh District Court,

PUB EMPLOYEE CONVICTED TWICE OVER ROBBERY

Posted on December 11th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
An employee of a Townsville pub has been convicted, again, for crimes relating to a robbery at the hotel she helped arrange. In December 2015 the Boomerang Hotel in Mackay was held up, with bandits getting away with $41,000. 25-year-old

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 SEEK GUNMAN IN QUEANBEYAN RAM-RAID

Posted on December 17th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Police have released CCTV footage of a ram raid armed robbery of the Hotel Queanbeyan in a bid to catch the bandit that fired at employees. The camera footage shows a dark grey Mitsubishi Triton ute reverse up to an

FORMER NRL CHOOK FOWLER JAILED FOR PUB ROBBERY

Posted on April 4th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Retired NRL player Anthony ‘Chook’ Fowler has been jailed for masterminding an armed robbery of his former employer, the Falvey family’s Cecil Hotel, Goodna. Peter Falvey has owned and operated the Cecil Hotel for 35 years, in recent times with

PLUCKY PATRON FOILS BANDITS WITH BAR STOOL

Posted on November 29th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
A dangerous situation in an east-Brisbane pub has been fended off courtesy of bumbling bandits and a gaming patron with a big stool. Around 11:30 on Monday night (27 November) two masked men entered Coles’ Lord Stanley Hotel on Stanley

AUSSIE INN SECURITY SEES CAREER CRIM IN PRISON

Posted on February 6th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The primary offender in the serious armed robbery of Hackham’s Aussie Inn Hotel has received a serious jail sentence after being convicted courtesy of the pub’s security system. 23-year-old Sttorm Leonard Edward Brown, and his accomplice entered the gaming room