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December

Thursday, 31
Shooting incident, Clintonvale
A man has been injured after a police related shooting at Clintonvale this afternoon.

Evening Round-up
Grievous bodily harm charge, Townsville; Suspicious fire, Ipswich; Armed robbery, Wynnum; Attempted armed robbery, Southport; Wilful exposure, Bulimba; Safety messages, wet weather

Morning Round-up Second edition
Break and enter - Maroochydore; Attempted murder charges - Burrum Heads.

Personal safety tips for New Year’s Eve
Police are urging revellers to use common sense and personal safety strategies to ensure New Year’s Eve celebrations remain safe and enjoyable.

Morning round up
House fire, Darling Heights; Update: grievous bodily harm arrest, Gin Gin; Search resumes, Thomatis Creek (Cairns District); Suspected arson, Narangba; Armed hold up, Lutwyche; Reports of armed man, Nerang; Drug arrests, Mutchilba

Wednesday, 30
Evening roundup
Break and enter West Burleigh; Armed robbery, Acacia Ridge; Truck rollover, Warrego Highway

Afternoon Round-up
Serious traffic crash, Innisfail; Pharmacy burglary, Caloundra; Woman’s body located, Agnes Waters

Body located, Wishart
At approximately 2pm today members of the Queensland Fire and Rescue service Swift Water Rescue Team located a body believed to be that of the boy missing in Bulimba Creek at Wishart.

Drug charges, Tallai
Police have charged a 44-year-old man with several drug related offences after a search warrant was executed at a residence on Glenaura Drive at Tallai yesterday.

Skimming device located, Clayfield
Officers from the State Crime Operations Command, Fraud and Corporate Crimes Group are investigating the location of a skimming device on an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) at Clayfield on December 27.

Fatal crash, Rockhampton
Police are currently at the scene of a single vehicle fatality on Rockhampton Yeppoon Road between access 7 and 8.

Morning round up
Update: damage to VMR vessels Attempted armed robbery, Surfers Paradise

Tuesday, 29
Evening roundup
Search update, Wishart; Arson arrest, Townsville

Afternoon Round-up
Missing boy, Wishart; Fatal crash, Agnes Waters; Armed robbery, West End; Safety messages, wet weather; Appeal for assistance, bank robbery, Cannon Hill

Morning Round-up Second Edition
Burglary, Glasshouse Mountains; Swift water rescue, Texas; Man charged, Benowa

Morning roundup
Fatal crash, Tinana (Maryborough); Suspected arson of school, Camira; Man injured after explosion, Rockhampton.

Monday, 28
Shooting incident Benowa
A man has been hospitalised after being shot by police in Benowa this afternoon.

Morning Round-up
Suspected arson of school - Townsville; Suspected arson of school - Townsville;

Sunday, 27
Evening round-up
Armed robbery - Coopers Plains; Animal cruelty charges - Gold Coast

Morning Round-up Second Edition
Motorbike crash - Camira; Firearm charges - Burleigh Heads;

Morning round-up
Pedestrian struck by vehicle - Mackay; Cyclist struck by car - Mermaid Waters

Saturday, 26
Fatal traffic crash, Tarragindi
Police are currently at the scene of a fatal traffic crash on the southbound lanes of Toohey Road near Mayfield Road at Tarragindi.

Inquiries to locate owner of items washed up on beach
Water police have exhausted all avenues into locating the owner of two engine hatchets and a cushion which were located on a beach at Surfers Paradise and are appealing for public assistance to help their inquiries.

Morning Round-up Second edition
Operational Hotel Sweeper arrest; Drug charges - Surfers Paradise; Drug seizure - Forestdale.

Morning round-up
Drug charges - Loganholme; Attempted rape arrest - Holloways Beach (Cairns); Car into house - Upper Mount Gravatt

Friday, 25
Evening Round-up
Armed robbery - Heatley; Fatal single vehicle roll-over - Greenmount (via Toowoomba);

Afternoon Round-up
Fatal house fire - Oakey; Drink driver - Milton; House fire - Blackstone - Ipswich; Break and enter - Ashmore.

Morning Round-up
Drug charges - Gaven; Robbery- Cairns City; Armed robbery - Woodridge; Armed robberies - Broadbeach Waters and Nerang;

Thursday, 24
Evening round-up December 24
Serious crash - Brightview (near Laidley); Attempted armed robbery - Stafford Heights; Grievous bodily harm arrest - Gin Gin

Sexual assault, West End
Police are investigating a sexual assault on a 19-year-old woman at West End early this morning.

Scam alert – fraudsters targeting online car sales
Queensland Police are once again urging the public to exercise caution after an increase in reports of scams involving the selling and buying of cars online.

Echo Shine Reward announced
Assistant Commissioner Ross Barnett today announced that a $50,000 reward would be shared equally between two men who provided important information leading to the arrest of the Echo Shine offender.

Morning round up
Break and enter charges, Chermside; Drug charges, Lockhart River

Wednesday, 23
Evening Round-up
Results, traffic operation, Gold Coast: Fatal crash, Beerwah

Hydroponics set-up located, Bundall
Hydroponics set-up located, Bundall

Afternoon round up
Traffic crash, Mount Gravatt; Drug charges, Milton; Attempted robbery, Wynnum

Tuesday, 22
Evening Round-Up
Armed robbery, Windaroo

Afternoon Round-up
Suspicious fires, Rockhampton; Wilful damage, Springfield; Robbery with violence, Bracken Ridge; Update, fatal crash, Brisbane City; Man burnt in caravan fire, Monto

Monday, 21
Taskforce Argos operation results in five arrests for possession of child exploitation
Taskforce Argos operation results in five arrests for possession of child exploitation

Evening Roundup December 21
House fire, Koongal; Marine rescue, Moreton Bay:

Robbery with violence, Carindale
Police are searching for two men who broke into a Carindale home last evening threatening the occupants with a firearm and a knife.

Afternoon Round-up
Wilful Damage, old Ipswich Police Station; Break and enter, pharmacy, Pittsworth; Robbery with violence, Corinda

Sunday, 20
Evening Round-up
Murder charge, Caboolture: Appeal for witnesses, Eagleby: Traffic crash, Deception Bay

Afternoon Round-up
Serious single vehicle crash - Gin Gin; Unlawful wounding charge - Mount Isa.

Morning Round-up - Second edition
Man falls off cliff - Springbrook; Arson charges - Durack;

Morning Round-up
Fatal marine incident, Townsville: Box Jelly Fish sting, Calliope River (Gladstone): Update: Armed robbery, Rockhampton

Saturday, 19
Afternoon Round-up
Update – Unlawful wounding - Marsden; Update – Fatal crash - Mt Coolon (near Collinsville); Update – Fatal crash - Mt Coolon (near Collinsville).

Fatal single vehicle crash
Fatal single vehicle crash

Morning Round-up - Second Edition
Fatal crash - Bruce Highway(near Midgee); Update - Death of a man- correctional centre, Rockhampton; Single vehicle crash - Runcorn; Pedestrian struck by police vehicle - Brisbane City;

Morning Round-up
Armed robbery, Stafford Heights: Business fire, Paget (Mackay):

Friday, 18
Evening round-up
Runaway wheels into a house - Walkerston; Break and enter - Glass House Mountains

Unlawful wounding, Marsden
Unlawful wounding, Marsden

Morning Round-up Second edition
Stealing charge - Mudgeeraba; Suspicious house fire - Acacia Ridge.

New information brings police closer to answers in 20-year-old murder
The Homicide Investigation Group’s Cold Case Team is more confident of finding answers regarding the murder of Annette Mason following fresh information provided by a witness.

Update to fatal traffic crash, Beerburrum
Investigations are continuing into the cause of a fatal traffic crash on the Bruce Highway at Beerburrum.

Grievous bodily harm, Surfers Paradise
Police have charged a 19-year-old old New Zealand woman after an alleged assault at Surfers Paradise overnight.

Morning Round-up
Fatal traffic crash - Beerburrum; Unlawful wounding - Marsden; Glassing - Surfers Paradise.

Thursday, 17
Evening round-up
Wilful damage - Goodna; Sexual assault - Manunda; Drug charges - Brisbane; Fatal - Marlborough; Fatal - Robina; Sudden death - Mt Isa; Assault - Ravenshoe

Fatal crash, Glenmorgan
A 37-year-old man was killed this morning in a single vehicle fatal crash near Glenmorgan.

Afternoon Round-up
Drug charges - Scarborough; Results - Traffic operation - North Brisbane area.

Morning round-up
Robbery - Hawthorne; Armed robbery charge - Rockhampton; Traffic charges - Oxley

Wednesday, 16
Evening round-up
Possible assault - Oxley; Drug charges - Woree

Afternoon Round-up
Fatal traffic incident, Bundaberg Update: charges, fatal car crash, Hatton Vale Death of a man – correctional centre, Rockhampton Traffic operation, North Brisbane area

Morning round-up
Arson - Wynnum; Appeal for witnesses - Newstead

Tuesday, 15
OMCG Taskforce Hydra arrests, Ipswich
Three men have been charged with extortion, torture and deprivation of liberty following an investigation by members of Taskforce Hydra.

Firearm discharge, Gympie
A 42-year-old Senior Constable has been transported to hospital after his firearm discharged, injuring his leg at a training range this morning at Gympie.

Morning round-up
Armed robbery - North Rockhampton; Industrial fire - Darra

Monday, 14
Appeal for witnesses, indecent activity, St Lucia
Police from the Brisbane West District are investigating a number of recent incidents involving young women and believe the man pictured below may be able to assist them with their inquiries.

Appeal for witnesses, robbery, Aitkenvale
Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was robbed on Friday afternoon at Aitkenvale.

Operation Stopper, Brisbane
Police are disappointed after having caught 133 drunk drivers over the weekend in an operation in central Brisbane.

Morning round-up
Update on fatal crash - Ormeau; Suspicious house fire - Biggera Waters; Serious assault arrest - Aspley

Sunday, 13
Evening Round-up
Fatal traffic crash, Ormeau: Armed robbery, Cairns: Robbery charges, Murgon:

Update, Bruce Highway crash, White Rock
A 50-year-old Edmonton woman driving a car involved in a two vehicle crash at White Rock yesterday, passed away in the Cairns Base Hospital this morning.

Operation Unite concludes
A two-day blitz on alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour by the Queensland Police Service has resulted in more than 1,000 charges being laid, Police Minister Neil Roberts and Deputy Police Commissioner Ian Stewart announced today.

Update, fatal crash, Fraser Island
A single vehicle rollover on Fraser Island earlier today left one man dead and seven people injured.

Afternoon Round-up
Large party - Gold Coast; Car into house - Victoria Point; Gunshots to business - Biggera Waters; Pedestrian hit by a car - Algester;

Serious Crash, Fraser Island
Police and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious single vehicle rollover at Fraser Island

Saturday, 12
Charges, serious crash, Bruce Highway
Police have charged a 21-year-old Innisfail man after a serious crash on the Bruce Highway at White Rock today.

Afternoon Round-up
Armed robbery, Sunnybank Hills; Assault police, Yeppoon

Sexual assault charge, Kangaroo Point
A 20-year-old Windsor man has been charged following an alleged sexual assault of a woman at Kangaroo Point in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Investigation into crash – Bruce Highway
Investigation into crash – Bruce Highway

Morning Round-up
Fatal motorcycle crash, near Mapoon (via Weipa); Traffic crash, Trinity Beach; Serious traffic crash, Hawthorne; Robbery, taxi driver, Marsden; Appeal for witnesses, Banyo Railway Station

Friday, 11
Afternoon Round-up
Suspicious grass fires - Esk; Child injured - traffic crash, Gatton; Body located - Wyandra;

Santa treated to new sleigh for Christmas at the Academy
A high-performance Santa’s Sleigh was unveiled today on the eve of Christmas celebrations at the Queensland Police Service (QPS) Academy.

Thursday, 10
Morning Round-up, second edition
Woman climbs stadium, Milton: Robbery charges, Nundah: Correction attempted arson, Riverview.

Police looking for answers to solve 26-year-old Gold Coast cold case
Police from the Homicide Investigation Group’s Cold Case Team are re-examining the murder of Linda Doris Reed on the Gold Coast in 1983 and are appealing for information from the public as well as an anonymous caller to come forward once again.

Morning Round-up
Chemist robbery - Nobby Beach; Attempted arson - Riverview; Caravan fire - Aspley; Robbery - Nundah.

Wednesday, 9
Evening Round-up
Charges, Mango Hill; Traffic operation, Burpengary; Robbery with violence, Coopers Plains

Afternoon Round-up
Indecent assault charges, East Brisbane; Attempted murder charges, Bli Bli

Large commercial hydroponic system located, Gold Coast hinterland
Three people have been charged following the location of a significant hydroponic system operating on a property near Guanaba.

Stolen property and drugs uncovered during raid
Two men have been charged and property including two boats, trailers, motorcycles and construction equipment seized following a raid at an Alberton (near Yatala) address yesterday.

Morning roundup
Armed hold-up arrests, Sunshine Coast

Tuesday, 8
Afternoon Round-Up, December 8 2009
Theft of fully laden semi-trailer, Banyo; Update - Serious crash Mount Gravatt East; Possible shooting incident, Glenella (near Mackay);

Missing elderly woman located, Carseldine
Police have located missing 71-year-old Carseldine woman, Valerie Evertsen, safe and well this afternoon.

Missing man, Moranbah
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a 36-year-old Moranbah man missing in the Mackay area.

ATM skimming group targeting South-East
Following a recent increase in card skimmers located on automatic teller machines (ATM), police are encouraging the public to remain vigilant this festive season.

Morning roundup December 8
Serious crash, Yatala; Serious crash, Sheldon; Serious crash Mount Gravatt East; Armed robbery, Park Ridge; Robbery with violence arrest, Proserpine

Monday, 7
Evening Round-up
Indecent assault - Mareeba; Suspicious activity - Toowoomba.

Afternoon Round-up
Results, traffic operation - Brisbane; Serious crash - Dutton Park; Armed hold-up - Sunshine Coast

Morning Round-up Second Edition
Armed robbery - Inala; Bag snatch - Annerley; Single vehicle crash - Cambooya (near Toowoomba)

Update, homicide investigation, Townsville
Police have released the name of a man whose body was located in Townsville on Friday afternoon.

Morning roundup
Fatal crash, Churchill; Ultra light aircraft incident

Sunday, 6
Evening round up
Fatal traffic crash, One Mile (Ipswich); Drugs charges, Stafford; Armed robbery, Carrara

Afternoon Round-up
Vessel incident - Innisfail; Arson charge - Morayfield.

Update - Missing man, Conondale (Maleny)
Police have released a picture of missing Conondale man Brett Besford and are appealing for information from the public to locate the 29-year-old.

Saturday, 5
Missing man, Conondale (Maleny)
Police are appealing for information from the public to locate a missing 29-year-old man from Conondale.

Fatal house fire, Camp Hill
A 54-year-old woman died in a house fire at Camp Hill early this morning.

Man charged following fatal crash, Park Ridge
Initial investigations indicate the police vehicle did a u-turn and activated its emergency lights however lost sight of the vehicle on Chambers Flat Road.

Morning Round-up
Homicide investigation - Townsville; Update – Missing person - Stanthorpe; Serious traffic crash - Shailer Park; Attempted armed robbery - Forest Lake; Armed robbery - Nerang; Traffic crash - Sarina; Assault charges - Carseldine.

Friday, 4
Police officer injured, Bowen
A Senior Constable from Bowen Police Station has been transported to Bowen Hospital after an accidental firearm discharge.

Rail incident, Landsborough
Police are investigating a rail incident which occurred at Landsborough yesterday.

Police to search lake in murder investigation
Police have received important information from the public regarding the suspected murder of Dulcie Birt at Ipswich and are now following a firm line of enquiry.

Morning Round-up Second Edition
Assault - Tingalpa; Drug arrest - Caloundra.

Morning round up
Factory fire, Capalaba; Rape charges, Beenleigh; Public urination, Anzac Memorial Square, Brisbane; Break and enter, Mansfield; Sudden death, Port Douglas; Assault charges, Marsden

Thursday, 3
Missing 14-year-old Stanthorpe boy
Missing 14-year-old Stanthorpe boy

Suspicious activity, assault, Upper Mount Gravatt
Police believe the man pictured may be able to assist them with their investigation into two assaults on women at the Garden City Shopping Centre in recent months.

Echo Shine reward update
There has been no decision in the distribution of the Echo Shine reward money, contrary to media reports, Assistant Commissioner Ross Barnett said today.

Rail incident, Wynnum
Police advise motorists to avoid the area and seek an alternative route near the Wynnum North Railway Station; in the vicinity of Wynnum North Road and Sandy Camp Road due to a fatal incident this morning.

Morning round up
Attempted armed robbery, Brisbane; Unarmed robbery, Gulliver (Townsville)

Wednesday, 2
Evening Round-up
Traffic operation targeting disqualified drivers, Maroochydore; Attempted armed robbery, Kirra; Burglary, Salisbury

Afternoon Round-up
Deceased man - Mudgeeraba; House fire - Cooroibah; Sudden death – drowning - Port Douglas.

Morning Round-up
Unlawful wounding - Zillmere; Attempted robbery charges - Mitchelton; Armed robbery - Capalaba;

Tuesday, 1
Afternoon Round-up
Update, missing man, Mount Isa; Drug operation, Beaudesert; Attempted fraud, Sunnybank

Morning Round-up
Suspicious house fire - Golden Beach; Armed robbery - Hervey Bay; Drug charges - Mount Walker;

Last Updated: 09/02/2009