Police
Student’s stark warning after drink spiked with date rape drug at Perth house party
A Safety Bay teenager is warning others about the danger of date rape drugs after her drink was spiked at a house party in Doubleview.
- by Lauren Pilat
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Perth recycling plant staff to face court for keeping treasure found in trash
Police were called to the Regional Resource Recovery Centre in Canning Vale on April 12 following reports staff had found one million dollars in cash among the recycling material the week before.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
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Missing person
Little Perth boy found after he went missing with his dad
Five-year-old Romeo has been found safe and well and has been reunited with his family.
Man pulls knife on WA police officers after mask request outside Nollamara supermarket
A 55-year-old man has been charged after police said he threatened them with a knife after refusing an order to wear a mask outside a northern suburbs supermarket on Saturday.
Backdated stay at home order issued for Perth and Peel travellers in regional WA
The WA government issued an official direction at 8.58pm on Saturday night backdating stay at home orders to April 17 for people who had left the Perth or Peel regions to other parts of the state.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Hayley Dodd’s killer’s comments on the stand spark fresh search on his property
WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said the new search for Hayley Dodd’s remains was triggered by something Wark said on the stand about a water tank during his recent murder trial.
- by Lauren Pilat and Heather McNeill
A Winnebago, a Hummer and more than 50kg of drugs: Victorian drug delivery ‘kingpin’ arrested south of Perth
A Melbourne man who the police minister described as a drug delivery “kingpin” has been arrested in Perth after allegedly overseeing a clandestine state border crossing sneaking 33 kilograms of methylamphetamine and 25 kilograms of pills in a motorhome into Western Australia.
- by Peter de Kruijff
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Tragedy
‘Car completely ripped in half’: Boys in the boot miraculously survive Busselton horror crash that killed two teens
Two boys have died after the car they were in - carrying seven teenagers, including two in the boot - crashed into a tree near Busselton on Saturday night.
- by Lauren Pilat
Police will treat investigation into baby’s death in car ‘carefully, thoroughly and with sensitivity’
The 11-month-old girl was found unresponsive in a car by her mother at a school in the Perth suburb of Darch, where she was picking up another child.
- by Daile Cross
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Tragedy
Police continue probe into 11-month-old’s ‘tragic’ death at Perth school
A criminal investigation into the infant’s death is ongoing and officers have spoken to her mother, who has since been allowed to leave.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola and Daile Cross
‘Boys horsing around’ put Perth student in hospital with broken hip: magistrate
Immature “horsing around” at a school in Perth’s south-east left a student with a disability with a broken hip and in excruciating pain for up to five hours, a magistrate says.
- by Lauren Pilat