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Subscriber only A Fraser Coast mum pushed police while they were trying to arrest her boyfriend for yelling obscenities from a hotel balcony and throwing tables and chairs at a popular Urangan restaurant. In Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on Thursday, Martika Mariah Mooney pleaded guilty to a charge of obstructing police on November 20 last year. The court heart police were called to The Dock Bar and Restaurant at Mantra Resort in Urangan in relation to reports a male patron was throwing tables and chairs. The prosecution said the man was standing on a balcony at the top of the hotel complex as police arrived, yelling obscenities and taunting the officers.
Police alleged North wouldn t stop twerking, doing handstands and stumbling around the establishment. North then allegedly jumped onto the food counter and continued to twerk as police officers entered and tried to lock herself in the public bathroom, before she was arrested. The court heard the following day North was also charged with being a public nuisance outside the Criterion Hotel Dalby, where she later allegedly assaulted and obstructed police and damaged a watch-house cell. North did not attend Dalby Magistrates Court on December 15 as scheduled, and instead sent a letter instructing she would plead guilty to all seven charges.
Noosa Heads officer in charge senior sergeant Ben Carroll said police located the first stolen car on December 20 before receiving a call from a concerned Tinbeerwah resident. Police received information from resident at Tinbeerwah that they had found a male in their yard who then stole his vehicle that was parked in the yard, he said. It wasn t until police located the man 42km west in Amamoor at 5:40pm on December 20 that he was arrested. When police located the man, he had to be tasered and was taken into custody, he said. The man was investigated for a series of other offences.
Four charged over illegal campfire that left Fraser Island ablaze for two months
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The fire was burning extensively across the island by early December.
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Four people have been charged with illegally lighting campfires that started the bushfires on Fraser Island (K Gari) off south-east Queensland.
The charges followed a joint investigation involving Queensland police and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS).
Police said a 17-year-old boy was also allegedly involved and would be dealt with under the Youth Justice Act.
They said QPWS rangers were alerted to an illegal campfire on October 14 within the Duling camp zone of Eastern Beach, north of Orange Creek.
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