Queensland Police

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.

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

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

ARSON SUSPECTED AS HERITAGE-LISTED BROADWAY ABLAZE

Posted on September 5th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
A heritage-listed pub in suburban Brisbane has gone up in flames for the third time in eight years, shortly following a $260 million development application for the site. The Broadway Hotel on Logan Road Woolloongabba was built 1889 for publican

MAN CHARGED OVER GLASSING AT GOLD COAST PUB

Posted on July 9th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
A young man has been charged with grievous bodily harm after reportedly assaulting another man with a glass in a Gold Coast hotel over the weekend. Police report that around 1am on Saturday (7 July) at the Coolangatta Hotel, a

POLICE RELEASE IMAGES IN PURSUIT OF ‘JACKPOT BANDITS’

Posted on February 14th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Queensland Police have released further information and an image of a man, in the pursuit of the so-called “Jackpot Bandits” linked to the armed robbery of multiple late-night hotels. Detectives from Operation Quebec Point report they have linked the bandits

BRISBANE PUB BRAWL PROMPTS CALLS FOR MANDATORY SENTENCING

Posted on October 23rd, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Five men have been charged following a brawl outside Brisbane’s Boundary Hotel on Sunday night in which two police officers were assaulted and injured. Police were called to the corner of Boundary and Jane Streets shortly after midnight, after the

‘ARMED’ HOLD-UP BANDIT FOILED

Posted on June 29th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Police in Queensland are investigating the attempted ‘armed’ hold-up of a Brisbane pub, after a man demanded cash and threatened a staffer with a finger-pistol in his jacket. The weapon-less man entered the ALH-run Pub Lane Tavern just before closing