Category: Gold Coast News
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TWO MEN HOSPITALISED AFTER UNPROVOKED GOLD COAST ASSAULT
Two men have been assaulted – one knocked unconscious – during an unprovoked attack on the Gold Coast. Shortly after 3am, the men were among a group of friends on Archipelago Street at Pacific Pines, when two other men approached the group. Police say an unprovoked altercation broke out, resulting in the assault of two…
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GOLD COAST MAN STABBED WITH SCISSORS IN ALLEGED CONFRONTATION
A man will face a Gold Coast court after he allegedly stabbed another man with a pair of scissors overnight. Police say an altercation broke out between the two men, aged 35 and 49, just after midnight at a residence on Norman Street in Southport. The younger man, from Benowa, was allegedly stabbed with a…
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RIDER CRITICAL AFTER HITTING GUARD RAIL AT CARRARA
A 38-year-old is in a critical condition at a Gold Coast hospital after a single vehicle motorcycle crash this morning. The accident happened just before 8am, when the rider lost control of his Black Honda on the Pacific Motorway at Carrara and hit a steel guard rail. The rider remains in a critical condition at…
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GOLD COAST RIDE SHARING DRIVER HELD UP AT KNIFE-POINT
A female ride sharing driver has been held up at knife point during a frightening ordeal on the Gold Coast. Police say the 39-year-old Carrara woman was sitting in her parked car on Marine Parade at Biggera Waters shortly before 9pm last night, when a masked man approached and entered the front passenger seat. Armed…
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MAN WANTED OVER GOLD COAST ROAD RAGE INCIDENT
Gold Coast police are keen to speak to a man about a traffic incident involving two vehicles at Robina, just before 1.30pm on Wednesday this week. Following the alleged incident on Scottsdale Drive, police say a man has stepped out of one of the vehicles and attempted to grab the arm of the female driver…
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TWO LEFT WITH KNIFE WOUNDS AFTER GOLD COAST BRAWL
An altercation between two groups of men on the Gold Coast overnight has left two men in hospital with knife wounds. A group of five men were approached by another group of males around 2am on the Esplanade in Surfers Paradise. Two men, aged 25 and 30, suffered non-life threatening injuries and were taken to…
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MAN ATTEMPTS TO GRAB FEMALE JOGGER IN GOLD COAST PARK
Police are seeking witnesses after a female jogger was assaulted on the Gold Coast yesterday. The 43-year-old was jogging in a park behind Castello Circuit in Varsity Lakes just after 8am, when she was grabbed by a man. Police say he attempted to drag her into nearby bushes, but she managed to break free and…
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ARSON CHARGES LAID OVER 2015 SCHOOL FIRE
Two men have been charged in relation to a major school fire on the Gold Coast last year. Fire crews extinguished a building fire at a school on Tallebudgera Creek Road in Tallebudgera late on April 25th in 2016. As a result of a 19-month investigation, a 19-year-old Tallebudgera man has been charged with two…
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COCAINE, CASH AND CANNABIS UNCOVERED ON THE GOLD COAST
Illicit drugs, cash and fireworks have been discovered in a house on the Gold Coast. Police executed a search warrant at a Meadowlake Drive address in Carrara, where they allegedly found a quantity of cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, cash and fireworks. A 30-year-old Carrara man has been charged with three counts of possessing dangerous drugs, and…
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GOLD COAST JEWELLERY STORE HELD-UP
Police have released details of a man they wish to speak to following the armed robbery of a jewellery store on the Gold Coast. The incident happened at a business on Minnie Street in Southport, at around 10pm last night. The man, believed to be armed with a firearm, stole cash and jewellery before also…