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Premium Content Subscriber only A Sunshine Coast couple have lost nearly $3m in superannuation after an accountant allegedly transferred their investment funds for personal use in property and lifestyle benefits. A 68-year-old man was arrested in Brisbane and charged with fraud after allegedly misappropriating the self-managed super fund between 2013 and 2019. Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge Daren Edwards said the man had transferred about $2.8m which belonged to the "long term" local c...

A 70-year-old man was driving a white Nissan Qashqai SUV when it crashed head-on into a tree at Pacific Paradise on the Sunshine Coast at 7am on Easter Sunday.

His wife was a passenger in the car. The Nissan SUV which crashed into a tree on David Low Way, Pacific Paradise on Sunday morning. Picture: Scott Sawyer   Residents rushed out to help and firefighters used the jaws of life to cut the occupants free, in a desperate bid to save their lives. The pair was transported to Sunshine Coast University Hospital but the man died shortly after the crash. Senior Sergeant Edwards said the woman, 69, died about 10pm on Sunday. He said the man, who wa...

Premium Content Subscriber only A heated argument between a North Burnett couple ended in court after a woman punched her partner in the face and threw a steel stormwater grate at him. Standing before Gayndah Magistrates Court, the 20-year-old defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to one count of contravening a domestic violence order created on November 12, 2020. Police prosecutor Sergeant Sonia Edwards said at 9pm on November 30, 2020, police were called to a pro...

Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards said the man was caught in Emu Park, near Rockhampton on Friday night. Adcock was found in a Toyota Camry on the corner of Roden and Schofield streets in Keppel Sands where he was approached by officers. Police will allege he reversed into a police vehicle and took off on foot. He was tracked by the dog squad and found hiding behind a shed. "He was tasered and then pulled out a knife to fight off a police dog," Se...

Police are appealing for public assistance after a man sustained critical head injuries in an alleged assault on Thursday.

Jesse Leilan MacKenzie, 29, was one of three men charged with assault and affray over a shocking brawl caught on camera in Sydney on Saturday night where two 16-year-old girls were injured.

"It was about 2 oclock in the morning, I was laying in my bed, I was just like dead to the world," the first victim said. The young woman woke when she felt a slight tug on her hair, but brushed it off and tried to go back to sleep. "I was half awake, half asleep when the second time I felt a harder tug and a crawling sensation down my neck." Thinking it was just a spider, the girl woke up and turned on the light. "Ive gotten up and he was kneeling beside my bed with half of his pants down...

Water police have joined in searches in the southern parts of the Sunshine Coast for a man described as “violent and dangerous” and potentially still armed with a machete.

"We allege that in his position as a project manager over the last 12 month period, he received $70,000 worth of product and subcontractor work at his own private premises, which he wasnt entitled to," Detective Senior Sergeant Edwards said. He said the alleged offence was reported to police after company audits. "At this stage (the charge) is fraud, with a circumstance of aggravation due to the nature of the amount," he said. "We allege its over $70,000 worth of product and labour being us...