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Metal detector wanding trial at Gold Coast
Police have seized two weapons in the first weekend of a new metal detector wanding trial on the Gold Coast.
As part of the weekend enforcement action commencing on Friday night, police scanned 116 people in the Safe Night Precincts of Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach.
Gold Coast District Acting Chief Superintendent Rhys Wildman said the trial was a preventative strategy designed to reduce knife crime on the Gold Coast.
“Officers are using the scanning device to randomly and quickly check if a person within the Safe Night Precinct is armed with a dangerous weapon in public,” Acting Chief Superintendent Wildman said.
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Police arrest four teens in stolen vehicle, Elanora
Police arrested and charged four teenagers overnight after the group were intercepted by officers in an alleged stolen vehicle at Elanora.
Around 5.30pm, police were notified that an alleged stolen 4WD was spotted travelling north at Coolangatta with police commencing patrols for the vehicle.
Police located and monitored the vehicle and a tyre deflation device was successfully deployed on Currumbin Creek Road at around 8.30pm.
The damaged vehicle continued along Currumbin Creek Road failing to stop for police before travelling at slow speed into KP McGrath Drive at Elanora, where it collided with an unmarked police vehicle. No one was injured and the police vehicle sustained minor damage.
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Subscriber only MORE than a week after Kelly Wilkinson died her estranged husband remains in hospital under police guard. Brian Earl Johnston was to appear in Southport Magistrates Court on Friday in relation to serious assault charges. The nature of the charges cannot be revealed for legal reasons. Johnston was charged on April 12 for alleged incidents which took place in February. Brian Johnston remains in hospital under police guard. Picture: Facebook
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Subscriber only A FREELANCE music producer who punched a man in the face during a violent brawl in the heart of Surfers Paradise, terrifying onlookers, has walked from court with a fine. Eriik Te Aroha Pihere pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates Court to assault occasioning bodily harm while in company. The 19-year-old and five co-accused bashed a man in broad daylight in a busy Surfers Paradise street on November 14 last year. Eriik Te Aroha Pihere, 19, leaving the Southport Courthouse after pleading guilty to assaulting a man in Surfers Paradise alongside five co-accused. Picture: Jodie Callcott. The court was told the attack happened after an altercation started between two groups involving Pihere and the victim.