POLICE set up a 100-metre exclusion zone in Hume today while the bomb squad dealt with two suspected pipe-bombs. Reports of the suspicious packages in Alderson Place, Hume, reached police at about 10.15 this morning. General duties police officers set up the 100-metre exclusion zone and requested assistance from the Special Response Group Bomb Response Team. [...]
AN AUCTION for Canberra Centenary “C 100″ number plates closes at 4pm today, with the current price sitting at just over $6000. The “C 100″ plates are from a series of commemorative sets numbered from 001 to 100 that can be fitted to any ACT-registered vehicle, and are being auctioned online to raise money for Dollars for Dili, the official Centenary charity [...]
CANBERRA’S drug users are paying more for cocaine than the rest of the country, according to new figures from the Australian Crime Commission. The Commission’s Illicit Drug Data Report revealed in 2011–12 the ACT and the Nothern Territory recorded the highest street price for cocaine, with users willing to pay up to $500 for one [...]
A POLICE officer has been hospitalised after a man who broke into a woman’s home struck him with a log while resisting arrest early this morning. After receiving reports of multiple burglaries in the inner south last night and early this morning, police were called to an apartment in Kingston at about 4.47am, where a woman had woken [...]
A WOMAN was accosted and robbed after withdrawing money from a Commonwealth Bank in Manuka last night. Around 6.35pm a woman had withdrawn money from the Commonwealth Bank ATM on Bougainville Street when she was accosted by a man who snatched her purse and ran to a car parked nearby. Two men are suspected to [...]
