Senior Sergeant Blain said the incident was reported to police days later, on March 1, and investigations lead to the 19-year-old s arrest on March 2. Sen-Sergeant Blain said it would be alleged the incident was a one-punch assault resulting in serious injuries, and followed the launch of the Assault Free Zone campaign targeting anti-social and alcohol-fuelled violence in the district. The incident was recorded on City Safe cameras, which helped in the investigation. He said Whitsunday police would continue cracking down on violent behaviour in the Airlie Beach district. The 19-year-old man is scheduled to appear in Proserpine Magistrates Court on April 12.
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A paraplegic Whitsunday man has avoided jail for serious drug charges after a judge told him “prison authorities would have great difficulty looking after you”.
Andrew Karl Brauner, 52, faced Mackay District Court on Friday charged with a string of drug offences after Australian Border Force officers raided his home in 2018.
The court heard the officers had intercepted a package, containing 0.858 grams of pure heroin, on its way to Brauner’s Woodwark home in February 2018.
When border force officers searched Brauner’s home on July 15 2018, he admitted to buying the heroin on the dark web.
Officers also found dried marijuana, an uncapped syringe and a hydroponics set-up during the search.
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From skinned crocodiles to major drug busts, these were the biggest crimes that rocked the Whitsundays in 2020.
Absolute croc
A man took a crocodile to a motel, skinned it, chopped it up and then ate it.
For that he copped fines amounting to almost $10,000.
Paul Andrew Isaacson, from Cannonvale, pleaded guilty in Proserpine Magistrates Court to taking a protected animal and making a false or misleading statement to a conservation officer, after he lied about it.
The court heard the Islands Inn Motel owner, in Mandalay, saw the 47-year-old cutting up the body of a crocodile, on September 18, 2018.