01:24 EDT, 5 July 2021
Pictured: Jakob Opacic, 28,who died on Friday
A jilted ex-lover vowed to kill love rival Jakob Opacic, brother of NRL player Tom Opacic, before he was found fatally injured on the side of the road, court documents reveal.
Steven Dale Latter, 28, and Benjamin Charles Johnson, 29, both faced Southport Magistrate Court on Monday charged with murder.
Police will allege the pair were waiting on Nerang-Murwillumbah Road on Friday - the day Johnson s former partner Rheannon Rowe was released from Numinbah Correctional Centre in the Gold Coast hinterland.
Police allege Ms Rowe was met by her family and her new partner Jake Opacic, whose brother Tom plays for the Parramatta Eels, just after 10am.
Crime by Lea Emery
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Subscriber only A SINGLE mother has claimed she does not know how she became so grossly intoxicated when she stripped off her shoes and pants and bit a security guard in the Star Casino car park. Kristyana Chintamini Stone, 25, pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrate Court on Thursday to assault occasioning bodily harm, public nuisance and obstructing police. The court was told Stone flagged down a car on the Gold Coast Hwy about 10pm on September 12 last year in distress. The car took her to the Star Casino to get help. When security guards came to the car park to get help Stone had stripped her pants and shoes off.
Crime by Lea Emery
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Subscriber only A SINGLE mother has claimed she does not know how she became so grossly intoxicated when she stripped off her shoes and pants and bit a security guard in the Star Casino car park. Kristyana Chintamini Stone, 25, pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrate Court on Thursday to assault occasioning bodily harm, public nuisance and obstructing police. The court was told Stone flagged down a car on the Gold Coast Hwy about 10pm on September 12 last year in distress. The car took her to the Star Casino to get help. When security guards came to the car park to get help Stone had stripped her pants and shoes off.
02:35 EDT, 27 April 2021
A man accused of dousing himself and a house in petrol in an alleged domestic violence incident was tackled to the ground by quick-thinking cops before he could act, police say.
He was holding a cigarette lighter and threatening to create an inferno before the brave officers jumped into action on Sunday night at the Gold Coast home, Superintendent Geoff Sheldon explained.
During a press conference on anti-hooning activities, Supt. Sheldon revealed the acts of bravery by officers who attended the alleged domestic violence incident at O Reilly Drive, Coomera around 9.30pm on Anzac Day. He doused himself and the house in petrol while his partner and two adult children of that partnership, and one of their girlfriends, were inside the house, said Sheldon.