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NAMED: Drink and drug drivers busted on Coast roads

From a man caught driving while more than three times the legal limit to a man who “smoked three cones” before getting...

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08th Dec. 2020 10:12 AM

Declan Flack, Matthew Cochrane and Benjamin Machiels.

Neighbours call cops over daughter’s violent outburst

Holes in the wall and a shower screen lying on the bedroom floor of a trashed unit were the aftermath of a daughter’s...

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16th Sept. 2020 1:09 PM

Ximone Lilly Daniels, 20, was released on parole after leading police on a pursuit.

Man charged after two businesses targeted in ram raid thefts

A Landsborough man has been charged over two alleged break and enters where a van was used to ram raid separate Sunshine...

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06th Aug. 2020 5:08 AM

A 23-year-old Landsborough man allegedly fled police on Wednesday, but was found hiding by a creek by a police dog.

‘Gross investigative failure’: Why verdicts were overturned

A police officer “ignored” a witness’s claims before former deputy principal Kenneth Ernst stood trial on child sexual...

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17th July 2020 4:07 PM

Kenneth Ralph Ernst has been granted a retrial on charges of sexual assault. He is pictured leaving Maroochydore courthouse during a District Court trial in September last year. Mr Ernst pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing a girl 18 years his junior, when she was aged 13 to 17. Photo Contributed.

Former deputy successfully overturns child sex verdicts

A former Sunshine Coast deputy principal has won his appeal against child sex convictions on claims police botched the...

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17th July 2020 11:07 AM

Kenneth Ralph Ernst (right) leaves Maroochydore courthouse during a District Court trial last year.

Teen’s ‘disgusting’ behaviour in wild brawl

Half a carton of Vodka Cruisers fuelled a teenager’s “disgusting” drunken behaviour when she “lashed out” at police.

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09th July 2020 4:07 AM

Madison Tammy Alexia O'doherty threw rubbish at a police officer and “lashed out” during an Australia Day brawl.

Man found ‘passed out and drug affected' in private shower

A man who fled after he was caught passed out and drug affected in a complex shower was found by police hiding in a storage...

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08th July 2020 6:07 PM

Leslie Barber pleaded guilty to three charges in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on July 8.

Meth addiction lands man in jail after doing ‘stupid things’

A meth addict began an offending spree one day after he was released on parole for serious drug offending.

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03rd July 2020 2:07 PM

A man was returned to jail after using two stolen cars.

‘Just popped out of the ground:’ 6ft cannabis plants found

A magistrate had some stern words for a father-and-son duo who appeared in court on drugs charges after police found...

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02nd July 2020 4:07 PM

Troy (pictured) and his father, Noel Dugdale appeared in Maroochydore Magistrates Court today.

Coast teen arrested over alleged tourist stabbing

Police have charged a Sunshine Coast teenager who allegedly stabbed a tourist in the chest and back during a fight in...

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01st July 2020 5:07 PM

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