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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
34 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
At 11.30am on Monday 22 December, police stopped a vehicle on Tuloa Ave Hawks Nest and subjected the 45 year old male driver from Darwin to a road side breath test. The test was in excess of the legal allowable limit. As a result the driver was conveyed to Tea Gardens…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday 29 December 2014, a police detected 5 drivers driving under the influence of illegal drugs being cannabis and Methamphetamines. A 60 year old male from Tea Gardens tested positive for both, three other…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →At 2am Saturday 25 January 2015, police responded to an incident at Yamba Street Hawks Nest were a thirty year old male had been assaulted. Upon arrival police located the unconscious male suffering from serious head injuries after being punched and falling backwards and smashing his head on a concrete floor. The victim…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At 3:44pm on Sunday, 1st February 2015, police were travelling on the Bucketts Way when they have noticed a motor cycle travelling at high speed. It was further noted the vehicle was displaying an "L" plate. Police attempted to stop the cycle. The cycle reached speed in excess of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On 11 January 2015, between 8.45pm and 9.30pm, a break and enter occurred at a holiday unit in Hawks Nest which saw a lady's handbag stolen which included her purse and personal papers. At 10.23pm that same night a credit card that was stolen during the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In February 2015 the Australian Institute of Family Studies released a report analysing trends in family law court filings over a 9 year period between 2004-05 and 2012-13…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Roundup 5th -- 12th March About 6pm Thursday 12 March 2015, police responded to a possible domestic incident in Tea Gardens. Upon arrival it was confirmed that 76 year old female and an 80 year old male resided at the address…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About 10pm on the 19th of March 2015 Bulahdelah Police stopped a motor vehicle for the purpose of a random breath test. At this time the 31 year old driver was asked to produce his driver's licence. The male informed police that it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Recently the Australian Bureau of Statistics released statistics showing that the case load between the Family Court and the Federal Circuit Court (known as the FCC) in 20122013 stood at 86% in the FCC and 14% in the Family…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Roundup 20th - 26th March About 11:25am on Thursday 26 March, 2015,police stopped a 63 year old male from Hawks Nest for the purpose of a random breath test…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 10:15 pm Sunday 5 April 2015 police stopped an Audi 4WD in Tuloa Ave Hawks Nest for the purpose of subjecting the driver to a roadside breath test. The 51 year old male driver from the Central Coast returned a reading in excess of the legal allowable limit and was placed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 1.45pm Saturday 11 April 2015, police stopped a vehicle on Marine Drive Tea Gardens for the purpose of subjecting the driver to a roadside breath test. The driver, a 61 year old male from Tea Gardens, was subjected to a roadside breath test which returned a reading in excess of the legal allowable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At 3.30pm on Tuesday the 5th of May 2015, a 56 year old male from Karuah was stopped for the purposes of subjecting him to a roadside breath test. The test returned a reading a reading in excess of the legal allowable limit. He was informed he was now under arrest for a breath analysis. He was conveyed to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At 10am Tuesday 2 June 2015, police observed a male walking along Myall Street Tea Gardens. In the days previous, Tea Gardens Police had received numerous reports about the male who was living in Hawks Nest in the sand dunes. He was committing no crimes, harassing no people but local residents were just reporting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A 45 year old man will appear at Forster Local Court on the 5 August 2015 in relation to the cultivation and possession of cannabis. Police attended his home in Crawford River and located 23 mature cannabis plants and a quantity of cannabis seeds and leaf. Police will allege the man was growing the cannabis for personal use in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 7.20pm Wednesday 17 June 2015, police stopped a Holden Commodore Station Wagon on Marine Drive Tea Gardens. The vehicle was suspected of being responsible for a number of "burnouts" around Tea Gardens with evidence of tyre marks remaining on a number of local streets. The driver was spoken to and he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At 6.30am Monday 8 June 2015 police stopped a vehicle on Myall Street Tea Gardens for the purpose of subjecting the driver to a roadside breath test. The 51 year old driver from Hawks Nest was tested and returned a positive reading. He was placed under arrest and conveyed to Tea Gardens Police Station for a breath…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the early hours of Tuesday the 14th of July a vehicle was stolen from a residence in Crawford Street Bulahdelah. The vehicle was parked in the driveway of the residence however the vehicle was unsecured and the keys were in the ignition. The vehicle was located in Taree burnt out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 2.30pm Monday 13 July 2015, police observed a 16 year old male drove through the roundabout at the intersection of Booner Street and Tuloa Ave, Hawks Nest in his parents Holden Commodore station wagon. Police were aware he was not the holder of a NSW driver's licence. Police were also known to the front seat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 2pm 6 July 2015 a local Bulahdelah resident contacted police to report a telephone scam that she was subjected to earlier. She reported that a male person with a foreign sounding accent that was difficult to understand had telephoned her on her home land line. This person then advised that unless she deposited monies…
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