Posted
Former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer is charged over the alleged assault of a taxi driver and stealing an EFTPOS machine in Sydney overnight.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, crime, local-government, pyrmont-2009, darlinghurst-2010
Posted
After arsonists attacked Adelaide's last drive-in theatre, food trucks and portable toilets are brought in and movie-goers return just two days later.
Topics: community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime, arson, gepps-cross-5094, ottoway-5013, adelaide-5000, sa
Posted
| UpdatedAshley Dyball, 25, (pictured) travelled to Syria in 2015 to fight for the Kurdish YPG militia and is the second man to be charged over Samuel Thompson's disappearance.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, bald-hills-4036, albion-4010, qld, australia
Posted
| UpdatedIt was one of the great art heists of the 20th century, but the motive of the students behind it wasn't to flog the piece on the black market — this was an act of political protest.
Topics: art-history, arts-and-entertainment, crime, law-crime-and-justice, united-kingdom, ireland
Posted
| UpdatedThe Queensland man is the second person to be arrested and charged over the disappearance of Brisbane child care worker Samuel Thompson, the ABC understands.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, brisbane-4000, albion-4010, bald-hills-4036
Posted
| UpdatedA 28-year-old man appears in court with the murder of father-of-two Ian Baz Bosch at a bus stop in November.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, coolbellup-6163, wa
Posted
Topics: crime, albany-6330
Posted
Topics: crime, albany-6330
Posted
WA's Great Southern police urge firearms holders to increase levels of security beyond ensuring their guns are locked in gun safes.
Topics: crime, albany-6330
Posted
Topics: crime, police, albany-6330
Posted
| UpdatedAustralia's former most wanted fugitives, father and son Gino and Mark Stocco, are each sentenced to 40 years' jail for the murder of Rosario Cimone, and a shootout with police during a two-week manhunt.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, nsw, dunedoo-2844
Posted
Another murder charge and 28 attempted murder charges have been laid against Dimitrious Gargasoulas, the man accused of Melbourne's deadly Bourke Street rampage in January.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, emergency-incidents, melbourne-3000, vic
Posted
An heir to the Red Bull fortune wins another delay in facing charges over an alleged hit-and-run that killed a police officer in Thailand almost five years ago.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, thailand, asia
Posted
Beverley O'Connor speaks to South-East Asia correspondent Liam Cochrane about a Red Bull heir who continues to delay facing charges over a hit-and-run incident.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, thailand, asia
Posted
| UpdatedAuthorities will be able to prosecute those lying about their age to minors online and intervene before a predator can act under new legislation introduced by the Federal Government.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, federal-parliament, parliament, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
Posted
A Riverland vineyard owner discovers several wine grape rows close to being harvested slashed and damaged in an apparent attack.
Topics: rural, agricultural-crops, crime, barmera-5345, sa
Posted
Police drop murder charges against three men saying they believe allegations against them were false and charge another man over the death of a 39-year-old at Penfield Gardens earlier this month.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, penfield-5121, adelaide-5000, sa
Posted
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, charities, palestinian-territory-occupied, israel, australia
Posted
Former Wests Tigers star Tim Simona's dramatic fall from grace continues, as he is arrested in south-west Sydney after allegedly defrauding charities.
Topics: rugby-league, sport, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, police, crime, macquarie-fields-2564, campbelltown-2560, sydney-2000
Posted
| UpdatedArson is blamed for a big fire at Adelaide's last remaining drive-in theatre at Gepps Cross.
Topics: arson, crime, law-crime-and-justice, industrial-fires, fires, disasters-and-accidents, gepps-cross-5094, ottoway-5013, adelaide-5000, sa
Posted
| UpdatedThe former assistant general manager at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre accepts some responsibility for the centre's failures, but says his attempts to improve conditions were ignored.
Topics: royal-commissions, youth, law-crime-and-justice, crime, prisons-and-punishment, nt
Posted
| UpdatedThe Moree farmer convicted of shooting and killing a New South Wales environment officer dies of a heart attack less than a year into his sentence in Sydney's Long Bay prison.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, courts-and-trials, moree-2400, sydney-2000, nsw
Posted
| UpdatedSeveral former Don Dale detainees tell the NT youth detention royal commission guards bribed them with soft drink, chocolate and threats of isolation to fight each other.
Topics: royal-commissions, youth, law-crime-and-justice, crime, prisons-and-punishment, child-abuse, nt
Posted
A Canadian gold coin weighing 100 kilograms and bearing the image of Queen Elizabeth II is stolen during an overnight heist from Berlin's Bode Museum.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, library-museum-and-gallery, arts-and-entertainment, germany
Posted
Foreign Correspondent travelled to the drought-stricken Bundelkhand region in central India to film underworld criminals at work, stealing sand.