Category: Gold Coast News
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TWO CHARGED AFTER GOLD COAST PURSUIT
A man and a woman who allegedly fled the scene of a police pursuit on the Gold Coast earlier this week have been charged. The pursuit took place on Santa Barbara Boulevard in Hope Island around 1:30pm on Wednesday, after police became aware of a utility driving in an unusual manner. Police tracked the vehicle…
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MAN FACES COURT OVER ALLEGED GOLD COAST ARMED ROBBERY
A 29-year-old man has been charged for his alleged part in a violent armed robbery on the Gold Coast earlier this year. In July, police say two men, one with a gun, entered a home on Kilpatrick Court in Highland Park. A man inside the property was hit with a pair of bolt cutters, leaving…
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ELDERLY MAN AND WOMAN DIE IN GOLD COAST CAR CRASH
Two people have been killed in a major crash near the Gold Coast yesterday. Police say a Toyota sedan was travelling south along Waterford-Tamborine Road at Buccan around 10:30am, when it crossed into the oncoming lane and hit a Holden four-wheel-drive. A Toyota Rav 4 has then crashed into the four-wheel-drive. The man and woman…
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GOLD COAST CYCLIST CRITICALLY INJURED
A cyclist is in hospital with critical injuries, after an accident involving a car on the Gold Coast overnight. Police say the car and bicycle crashed on the Gold Coast Highway at the intersection of fourth Avenue, just before midnight. The 46-year-old cyclist was taken to hospital in a critical condition. The driver of the…
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CHARGES LAID FOLLOWING ALLEGED ARSON ATTACKS
A man will appear in court, charged over alleged arson attacks on two schools on the Gold Coast. In the first instance, emergency crews responded to reports of a fire inside a classroom at a school on Oceanic Drive in Mermaid Waters last Wednesday night. Then on Friday night, crews were required to extinguish a…
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MAN TO FACE COURT CHARGED WITH ALLEGED MURDER ON THE GOLD COAST
A man has been charged with murder following an alleged assault on the Gold Coast late last week. Police say a 53-year-old man and a 38-year-old man became involved in an altercation at a hospital in Southport, around 8am last Friday. During the alleged altercation, the 53-year-old man suffered serious head injuries. He died in…
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MAN SHOT BY POLICE DIES
A police Critical Investigation Team has been established following the shooting death of a Grafton man late yesterday. Police responded to an incident in Turf Street where they were confronted by a man wielding a knife.
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SOUTHPORT MAN FACES CHILD EXPLOITATION CHARGES
A man will face court for allegedly photographing and filming children in public toilets on the Gold Coast. Police say the man followed a 15-year-old male customer into the restrooms at a Biggera Waters shopping centre yesterday, and allegedly photographed him without consent. The boy noticed the phone and advised his father, who located the…
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ARSON POSSIBLY THE CAUSE OF TWO GOLD COAST SCHOOL FIRES
Police are treating two separate fires at schools on the Gold Coast as suspicious. Emergency services were called to a school on Oceanic Drive in Mermaid Waters just before 7:30pm on Wednesday, where they found a small fire in one of the classrooms. The fire was extinguished with only minor damage to the building. Then…
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TWO INJURED IN GOLD COAST ATTACK
Two people suffered facial injuries and had property stolen in a violent incident on the Gold Coast overnight. Police say a group of people were talking in a car park at The Spit on Main Beach, when ten vehicles arrived just after 11pm. A man, who arrived in a utility, approached a 20-year-old man from…