Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: ACTPolicing has charged more than 140 drivers with drink or drug driving following a targeted impaired driving operation last month. December (2025) saw officers from all areas of ACT Policing focus on impaired driving with almost 23,000 tests conductedduring the 31 days of the month. 64people were caught drink driving and80were caught driving with drugs in their system.For the year (2025)609people were charged with dr...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A45-year-old man has been charged with stalkinghis ex-partnerand breaching a family violence order. Police will allege the man breached a family violence order prohibiting him from contacting his ex-partner by sending her multiple emailsbetween December and January. The incidents were reported to police andon Wednesday (7 January 2026), the manwaslocatedina carpark in Gungahlin. When policeattemptedto arrest the man, ...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A30-year-old man will face court after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman known to him at a party last year. Police will allege inJune (2025), the man attended a partyin Moncrieffand sexually assaulted the woman while she was asleep. The incident was reported to police and yesterday (Thursday,8 January 2026), a search warrant was executed on the man's vehicle. Hewill face the ACT Magistrates court today (Friday, 9 ...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 8 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Kenya-born man has faced Brisbane Magistrates Court today (8 January, 2026) charged with failing to comply with his visa-mandated curfew conditions. The AFP charged the man on 7 January, 2026, after he was located in Brisbane, Queensland. It will be alleged the man breached a condition of his Commonwealth visa by failing to observe his residential curfew obligations. The man, 28, has been charged with...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 8 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are reminding Queenslanders not to put their lives at risk by driving through flood waters, with more heavy rainfall expected across large parts of the north in the coming week. Authorities are currently monitoring a Tropical Low sitting off Queensland's eastern coastline which has potential to bring more widespread heavy rain. Acting Chief Superintendent Townsville District, Dean Cavanaghurge...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 8 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are reminding Queenslanders not to put their lives at risk by driving through flood waters, with more heavy rainfall expected across large parts of the north in the coming week. Vision of a rescue on Monday, January 5, west of Cairns, where a man was winched to safety from the top of a campervan that was caught in floodwaters near Wolfram Road. Media release: https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/news/2...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 8 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: UPDATE: Thanks Canberra, the missing 47-year-old man we posted about earlier today has been located safe and well this evening. ************************************************************************************* ACT Policing is seeking the public's assistance to locate missing 47-year-old man Jeremy Thurling. Jeremy has not been seen or heard from since this morning, 8 January 2026, and is last believed to be in Kow...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 8 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A 31-year-oldChisholmman will face court today afterhis alleged reckless drivingresultedin a single vehicle collision. About11.00am yesterday (Wednesday, 7 January 2026)the man was allegedly driving hiswhiteMitsubishiLancerat speed and weaving in and out of traffic along DrakefordDrive in Bonython. The manthenallegedly lostcontrol of theMitsubishi Lancercausing it to hit a curb and rolla number oftimes,flattening a ped...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 7 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Sudan-born man is expected to face Melbourne Magistrates' Court today (7 January, 2026) charged over 42 alleged migration and bail offences. The AFP charged the man, 32, after locating him in Dandenong, Victoria, today. The man has been charged with the following offences: * 12 counts of fail to abide by specified curfew, contrary to section 76C of the Migration Act (Cth). This offence carries a maximum ...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 7 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A 37-year-old Braddon womanappeared in court via a bedside hearing today after allegedly stabbing a manon Monday. About3.30amon Monday(5January 2026),the womanand a man known to her were in her residence on Lowanna Street, Braddon. Sheisallegedto havetaken asteakknifefromherkitchenandstabbedthemanmultiple times. Police were calledandarrivedattheunit complexashort timelater,where theylocatedthe manoutsidebleedingheavily...