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Closure of drug trafficking operation at Bundaberg
Bundaberg detectives recently closed a drug trafficking operation, originating in the Bundaberg area and extending to south-east Queensland, involving the alleged distribution of steroids, cocaine and MDMA.
During the operation several residences and businesses were searched with officers locating cash, drugs and associated equipment.
Following information received about the unlawful importation of Selective Androgen Receptive Modulators (SARM) which is similar to testosterone, police searched an Avoca business.
It will be alleged police located more than twenty containers of restricted SARM drugs, as well as steroidal powders and liquids. They also located a substantial amount of packaging, labels, gel capsules and empty vials.
A senior police officer who was filmed unleashing an explosive rant aimed at a top Queensland cop after a mental health event has been booted from the police force.
A public nuisance charge against Senior Constable James Treanor was dropped at the first day of trial over the expletive-ridden tirade outside the Broadbeach Bowls Club on the Gold Coast on March 20 2019.
Video footage of the incident shows the officer calling Assistant Commissioner Brian Wilkins a c smoker and a coward with a court also hearing he threatened to blow his brains out .
However, police bosses still used the incident, in which he can be seen offering other officers to take his gun, as grounds to demote him, costing him $10,000 in pay, and to forcibly transfer him.
A 20-year-old student accused of raping a woman in a park was on bail, charged over an allegedly similar sex attack earlier this year, a court has heard.
Man accused of raping woman at popular park A man has been charged with the rape of a woman in a popular Surfers Paradise park this morning.
Crime by Elise Williams
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Subscriber only A man has been charged with the rape of a woman at a Gold Coast park this morning. The man, aged 20, has been charged with one count of rape and one count of assault with intent to commit rape. The incident is alleged to have occurred at a park off Cavill Avenue in the heart of Surfers Paradise. Police say officers were called to the scene just after 5.45am on Wednesday.