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Dangerous driving at Logan 17 May
Two women, a man and a teenager have been charged following successful deployment of a tyre deflation device at Hope Island overnight.
Just before 11pm police saw an alleged stolen vehicle at Cayuga Street, Nerang and evaded police.
Police will allege they deployed the tyre deflation device on Hope Island Road just after midnight this morning and the vehicle came to a stop in Abrahams Road, Coomera where all four occupants were arrested.
Police will allege the vehicle was stolen from an address on the Brisbane Corso, Yeronga around 4am on May 16.
A 28-year-old Biggera Waters man was charged with one count each of unlawful use of a motor vehicle, evade police, unlicensed driving and fraud. He is due to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court today.
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Police arrest four teens in stolen vehicle, Elanora
Police arrested and charged four teenagers overnight after the group were intercepted by officers in an alleged stolen vehicle at Elanora.
Around 5.30pm, police were notified that an alleged stolen 4WD was spotted travelling north at Coolangatta with police commencing patrols for the vehicle.
Police located and monitored the vehicle and a tyre deflation device was successfully deployed on Currumbin Creek Road at around 8.30pm.
The damaged vehicle continued along Currumbin Creek Road failing to stop for police before travelling at slow speed into KP McGrath Drive at Elanora, where it collided with an unmarked police vehicle. No one was injured and the police vehicle sustained minor damage.
This article contains references to domestic violence.
A man has been charged with murder after the burned body of mother-of-three Kelly Wilkinson was found in a Gold Coast back yard.
Queensland Police on Tuesday evening said they had charged a 34-year-old New Beith man with murder and breaching a domestic violence order.
The man remains under police guard in Gold Coast University Hospital and his case will be heard on Wednesday morning at Southport Magistrates Court.
The man was earlier arrested near the property on Spikes Court in Arundel.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family and pay for Ms Wilkinson s funeral.
A serial Centrelink fraudster collected more than $50,000 – now he’s faced court.
Crime by Lea Emery
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Subscriber only A SERIAL Centrelink fraudster collected more than $50,000 more than he was entitled to after he failed to inform the government about income from his job as a casual labourer. John Carl Tehan received the additional payments over 10 years between February 2009 and March 2018. But when added together the period he did not report as required was only three years. The 52-year-old pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates Court on Wednesday to 10 counts of obtaining financial advantage for self, driving under the influence of drugs and possessing dangerous drugs.