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Premium Content Subscriber only A mine worker confronted a manager at a Central Queensland mechanical business and threatened to shoot him in the head. The heated confrontation happened at a Blackwater workshop last November, and last Thursday the man who instigated the incident, David John Retford, 32, pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court to his offending. The court heard that on November 4, Retford attended the Blackwater business and asked to see the workshop manager. He exited the office and walked around to a workshop yard where he approached the manager. A verbal argument follow...

Crime by Shayla Bulloch Premium Content   A MAN who allegedly threatened to kill his partner and her children by burning down their house has been granted bail. The 20-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect his alleged victims, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly breaching a domestic violence order. Police allege the man contacted the aggrieved and made threats to kill her and her children, and threatened to burn their house down. Late Tuesday night, police were called to a house fire at Wulguru and established a crime scene. The house is be...

A mother of three who started using drugs about five years ago was spotted at a quarantine hotel behaving erratically.

Premium Content Subscriber only A woman drove unlicensed, in an unregistered and uninsured car, to collect cash from a cousin. Oriel Alisha Malcolm, 28, had never held a driver’s licence when she was intercepted driving on Card St, Berserker, at 10.50pm on April 7 in a Holden Commodore which had no registration plates attached. Malcolm pleaded guilty on April 22 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to the traffic offences. Police prosecutor Sergeant Darrell Dalton said the vehicle’s registration expired on November 1, 2020. He said despite having a traffic history and never having held a lice...

Premium Content Subscriber only Questions have been raised surrounding a young woman’s relationship with a former Child Safety officer after the woman was charged for breaching a domestic violence order involving the 49-year-old man. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty on April 22 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to three breaches of protection orders, two fail to provide identifying particulars and one fail to appear in court. Police prosecutor Sergeant Darrell Dalton said police were called to a motel on Gladstone Road at 1.15pm on February 20. He said the def...