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A 27-year-old Buderim man was charged with 15 offences and a 27-year-old Mountain Creek man was charged with 11 offences. A further four men and a woman were also charged with dangerous drug offences. Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge Daren Edwards said police will allege the seven people arrested were part of an “organised group”. “Certainly, it showed with the level of drugs they had access to,” Detective Senior Sergeant Edwards said. “They were fairly organised and people who ha...

Premium Content Subscriber only Police have appealed to several people who may have witnessed the alleged attempted rape of a young woman at Noosa to come forward. A Sunshine Beach man, 22, was on Thursday arrested and charged after he allegedly tried to sexually assault a young woman on April 18. Police say the woman was on her way to work about 5.20am when the man allegedly grabbed her. Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge Daren Edwards said there were at least six people who may have spo...

"Basically, the victim was just sitting there and gets belted, unprovoked. "He (the accused) just laid into him, punching him in the head." Sergeant Edwards said the accused had been involved in an earlier incident that had "nothing to do with the victim" and that he "got the wrong person". He said the French national is believed to be on a working visa. Sergeant Edwards said it was another example of a spike in "severe" incidents of violence within the Coasts safe night precincts. The ac...

Premium Content A woman’s body has been found dead at Point Cartwright this morning. Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge Daren Edwards said the woman’s body was found by a walker about 6.15am. Detective Senior Sergeant Edwards said investigations were ongoing.

A woman’s body has been found dead at Point Cartwright this morning.

Premium Content A womans body has been found dead at Point Cartwright on Monday morning. Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge Daren Edwards said the womans body was found by a walker about 6.15am. Detective Senior Sergeant Edwards said investigations were ongoing. More to come.

Premium Content Subscriber only Guns were allegedly pulled on the victim of a violent home invasion where entry was forced at a Yandina residence. Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge Daren Edwards said a 56-year-old man sustained facial injuries in the alleged incident. Detective Senior Sergeant Edwards said two men had allegedly entered the Cordwell Road home about 8.30pm on Sunday and used firearms to force entry into the residence. He said the man was allegedly "belted around the head" ...

Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge Daren Edwards. In 2020 alone, four people were charged with manslaughter from unlawful striking causing death, numbers Sergeant Edwards says could easily go up. "Some of those ones where victims are in free fall, half knocked out and your head hits the floor, it can result in death," Sergeant Edwards said of the incidents. "Its one step away from serious head injuries to death, which we have seen happen here. "People are not thinking. If youre out drin...

He said people werent getting the message of what can result from such actions. Detective Senior Sergeant Edwards said the victims face required extensive reconstructive surgery and other medical interventions to piece it back together. "His partner says they were trying to walk home when they were approached by the suspect who punched him for no reason," Sergeant Edwards said. The accused, a 27-year-old Baringa man was on Tuesday, March 30 charged with one count of assault occasioning grie...

Premium Content Subscriber only An additional 30 Mackay police officers will receive training in drug detection testing in a 30-day snap course. Mackay Road Policing Unit Senior Sergeant Shane Edwards said the training would provide additional resources to perform high-volume operations with a focus on drug detection as well as standard RBTs. “We’ve identified over the past couple of years that there has been a significant increase in positive drug results in the drivers of vehicles invol...