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Police investigate suspicious grass fire in Gordon
Publish date: 03:04PM - 10 January 2020ACT Policing are investigating a suspicious fire in Gordon today (Friday 10 January 2020).
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Two men to face court for multiple offences
Publish date: 08:58AM - 09 January 2020Two men, one aged 22, the other aged 24, will face the ACT Magistrates Court today (Thursday, 9 January, 2020) following their apprehension yesterday.
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Police seek witnesses to Banks aggravated robbery
Publish date: 12:45PM - 08 January 2020ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery at a house in Banks on Monday (6 January 2020).
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Police disappointed with driver behaviour over Summernats weekend
Publish date: 11:53AM - 08 January 2020ACT Policing is disappointed with the overall behaviour of drivers across this year’s Summernats weekend (2-5 January 2020).
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Man to face court over December shooting
Publish date: 08:32AM - 08 January 2020A 21-year-old Bateman’s Bay man will face court today (Wednesday, 8 January 2020) following a shooting incident in December 2019.
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Police renew calls for public assistance to locate missing teens UPDATE BOTH FOUND
Publish date: 03:54PM - 07 January 2020ACT Policing thanks the Canberra community for its assistance in locating the two missing teens, they have now both been found safe and well.
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Police investigate child sexual assaults from 1980s and 1990s
Publish date: 11:09AM - 07 January 2020ACT Policing’s Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Team is seeking information about a series of sexual assaults committed against children under the age of 16 during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Man to face court for multiple offences
Publish date: 08:51AM - 07 January 2020A 29-year-old man will face the ACT Magistrates Court today (Tuesday, 7 January, 2020) following his arrest yesterday in relation to several recent incidents.
MORE Police release images to identify offender in supermarket robbery
Publish date: 10:08AM - 06 January 2020ACT Policing has released images in order to identify a man police believe committed an aggravated robbery of a Deakin supermarket yesterday (Sunday, 5 January 2020).
MORE Have you seen Harmony Austin and Brandon DAlessandro UPDATE BOTH FOUND
Publish date: 10:51AM - 04 January 2020ACT Policing thanks the Canberra community for its assistance in locating the two missing teens, they have now both been found safe and well.
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Man charged following deliberately lit grass fires
Publish date: 09:43AM - 04 January 2020ACT Policing has charged a 20-year-old Mawson man following a number of small grass fires in Curtin earlier this morning.
MORE Man charged with 23 offences
Publish date: 09:22AM - 04 January 2020ACT Policing has charged a 24-year-old man with multiple offences following repeated crime activity in the ACT since December 2019.
MORE Summernats 2020
Publish date: 02:51PM - 03 January 2020Police are reminding drivers that while Summernats is a great place to show off their automotive pride and joy to obey road rules outside the event.
MORE Man to face court on assault charges
Publish date: 01:37PM - 03 January 2020A 25 year-old man will face the ACT Magistrates Court on January 30 2020 following a serious assault yesterday (2 January 2020) in Macgregor.
MORE Two to face court on driving charges
Publish date: 09:44AM - 02 January 2020A 36 year-old man and a 25 year-old woman will face the ACT Magistrates Court today on driving charges.
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