Crime by Shayla Bulloch
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Subscriber only A TOWNSVILLE man has been charged after threatening to rape and sexually abuse a list of random women he called more than 400 times. The 41-year-old Cosgrove man was arrested yesterday and charged with 21 offences of using a carriage service to menace and harass. Police will allege that the man harassed eight random women across Queensland and interstate, and inundated them with more than 400 phone calls between February and April. Police will allege that he threatened to physically and sexually assault all eight victims on the phone calls. Townsville Child Protection and Investigation Unit officer-in-charge Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Miles said the man called one particular woman 145 times.
Crime by Shayla Bulloch
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Subscriber only A TOWNSVILLE man has been charged after threatening to rape and sexually abuse a list of random women he called more than 400 times. The 41-year-old Cosgrove man was arrested yesterday and charged with 21 offences of using a carriage service to menace and harass. Police will allege that the man harassed eight random women across Queensland and interstate, and inundated them with more than 400 phone calls between February and April. Police will allege that he threatened to physically and sexually assault all eight victims on the phone calls. Townsville Child Protection and Investigation Unit officer-in-charge Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Miles said the man called one particular woman 145 times.
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Police make arrest in money laundering investigation, cryptocurrency seized at Townsville
Detectives from the Crime and Intelligence Command’s Major and Organised Crime Squad (MOCS) Northern Region arrested a 37-year-old Townsville man and seized $165,000 worth of crypto currency, as part of operation Sierra Avalanche, an investigation into alleged money laundering.
Detectives charged the man with five money laundering offences as a result of search warrants on his Garbutt residence and Townsville business address on April 13, where cryptocurrency and eight vials of steroids were located and seized.
He is due to re-appear at the Townsville Magistrates Court on October 6.
Arrest in money laundering investigation, cryptocurrency seized, Townsville
Detectives from the Crime and Intelligence Command’s Major and Organised Crime Squad (MOCS) Northern Region arrested a 37-year-old Townsville man and seized $165,000 worth of crypto currency, as part of operation Sierra Avalanche, an investigation into alleged money laundering.
Detectives charged the man with five money laundering offences as a result of search warrants on his Garbutt residence and Townsville business address on April 13, where cryptocurrency and eight vials of steroids were located and seized.
He is due to re-appear at the Townsville Magistrates Court on October 6.
The operation commenced in August 2020 to investigate the alleged money laundering of $2.5 million worth of proceeds of crime in 2020 by the man.