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In this section you will find the latest news on arrests, missing persons, seizures and crimes committed and solved in the ACT.
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Four speeding motorcyclists caught by road policing
Publish date: 09:41AM - 22 January 2023On Saturday morning (21 January 2023) ACT Policing detected four motorcyclists travelling between 105km/h and 121km/h on Yarra Glen.
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Police seeking witnesses to Belconnen aggravated robbery
Publish date: 08:18AM - 22 January 2023ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery in Belconnen on Wednesday (18 January 2023).
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Man arrested after indecently assaulting woman and physically assaulting police
Publish date: 09:23AM - 21 January 2023ACT Policing has arrested a 21-year-old man after he indecently assaulted a woman in her home, resisted arrest, bit a police officer and began urinating in a police vehicle.
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Operation TORIC investigating overnight property and vehicle crimes
Publish date: 12:40PM - 20 January 2023ACT Policing’s Operation TORIC is actively investigating six incidents early this morning (Friday, 20 January 2023) that police believe are connected.
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Drugs seized after warrant executed in Hall
Publish date: 10:00AM - 20 January 2023Acting on information received from multiple sources, ACT Policing Detectives assisted by RSCPA Inspectors, yesterday (Thursday, 19 January 2023) executed a search warrant on a premises in Hall.
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Police seeking witnesses to assaults in City and Gordon
Publish date: 08:58AM - 20 January 2023ACT Policing is seeking witnesses and information about two separate, but related, incidents where a man was the victim of an alleged coward punch in Canberra City, and a teenage girl received broken facial bones in Gordon early on the morning of Saturday, 10 December 2022.
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ACT Policing seize multiple firearms during search warrant execution
Publish date: 10:22AM - 19 January 2023Last night, (Wednesday, 18 January 2023) ACT Policing seized multiple firearms and stolen property from a residence in Holder.
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Man arrested after 65-year-old woman loses $70,000 to scam
Publish date: 09:23AM - 19 January 2023A 28-year-old Harrison man has been arrested after a woman was threatened into handing over approximately $70,000 in cash.
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Can you identify this man?
Publish date: 09:34AM - 17 January 2023ACT Policing is seeking to identify a man involved in an incident at the 7-Eleven service station in Mort Street, Braddon.
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Police seeking four persons of interest
Publish date: 02:29PM - 16 January 2023ACT Policing is seeking the identities of four men who are believed to have knowledge of an assault that occurred in Bible Lane, Canberra City, in December last year.
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Man charged with sexual assault
Publish date: 10:37AM - 16 January 2023A 28-year-old Palmerston man was arrested on Sunday (15 January 2023) and charged after an alleged sexual assault.
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Man on weapons and drugs charges
Publish date: 09:59AM - 16 January 2023ACT Policing has arrested a 31-year-old for possession of weapons and drugs.
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Second person charged after Tuggeranong jewellery theft
Publish date: 09:33AM - 16 January 2023ACT Policing has arrested a second woman in relation to last week’s $13,000 jewellery robbery.
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Publish date: 08:48AM - 16 January 2023After two arrests by ACT Policing’s Operation Toric, a 35-year-old Bonython man and a 41-year-old O’Connor woman, will face the ACT Magistrates Court today (Monday, 16 January 2023) on a total of 15 charges.
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Motorcyclist caught speeding at 186kmh
Publish date: 09:37AM - 15 January 2023A 57-year-old Palmerston man will lose his licence after ACT Road Policing officers caught him speeding by more than 100km/h on Ginninderra Drive, Lyneham on Saturday afternoon.
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