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Homeless man remanded

A YOUNG homeless man alleged to have smashed shop front windows, and sexually assaulted a stranger while she was doing her gardening will stay in custody after being refused bail. The Mildura Magistrates Court heard this week of multiple offences...

13 hours ago
Police & Courts

Police out over long weekend

MILDURA Police were part of Operation Regal, a road safety campaign over the King’s Birthday long weekend which resulted in the detection of multiple offences including 28 for speeding. One driver was detected by police travelling on Fifteenth...

23 hours ago
Police & Courts

Jail for violent repeat offender

A MAN accused of attacking a stranger with a knife in the street, persistently breaching multiple family violence intervention orders and causing serious injury to the mother of his child has been jailed. The Mildura Magistrates Court this week...

12 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Bail adjourned for meth addict

A MAN accused of breaking into motel rooms to steal a television and credit cards which were used to purchase gold jewellery and cologne has had his bail application adjourned, part-heard, until next week. Twenty-nine-year-old Brendan Walters was...

12 Jun 2025
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13 Feb 2020
Police & Courts

Driver’s charter defence dismissed

A WODONGA woman who raised defences within the Charter of Human Rights after it was alleged she had been caught speeding has had her licence suspended. Tracey Quinn appeared at the Mildura Magistrates Court last Friday to contest a speeding offence...

11 Jun 2025
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Single car crash near Coles

A HOLDEN Commodore Storm was involved in a single vehicle incident after colliding with a tree on Sunday morning near the intersection of Eighth Street and Nash Lane. No injuries are believed to have come from the incident that stripped shards of...

10 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Charter fight over speed reading

A WODONGA woman has raised defences within Charter of Human Rights after she was alleged to have been caught driving 20km/h over the speed limit on the Mallee Highway at Cowangie. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court a police officer was using a radar...

07 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Man to front court over bus crash

THE alleged driver of a mini-bus that crashed at Carwarp killing two passengers in June last year has appeared briefly in Mildura Magistrates’ Court. Samoan national Fua Moananu, 26, has been charged with two counts of dangerous driving causing death...

07 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Police drop sex charges

SEX assault charges against an Afghan national on multiple alleged victims have been withdrawn by police. Forty-four-year-old Abdul Qayum Nawabi was initially charged with assaults against three females, includng a two-year-old child, within days of...

07 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Fighting crime is a family affair

A MAJOR cross-border police operation led to 16 arrests last weekend with a unique family connection of four relatives from Victoria and New South Wales Police working side-by-side to help keep the community safe. Operation Hawker ran from Friday...

06 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Jail a ‘close case’ for gifted sportsperson

A COUNTY Court judge has found it was out of character for a gifted Mildura sportsperson to have threatened to kill his former partner in determining not to jail the man in what he described as a “close case”.The 35-year-old man, who cannot be named...

05 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Jail over CBD shop damage

A SPATE of property damage by a homeless man that caused thousands of dollars worth of damage in Mildura’s CBD was motivated by drug use, a court has been told. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court was this week told 31-year-old Matthew Levers smashed...

05 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Attacker to appeal jail term

A WOMAN was forced to hide in scrubland at Hattah-Kulkyne National Park after fleeing a man who she was camping with after he smashed her head into the inside of a car and threw her phone into the bush so she could not contact anyone. The Mildur...

03 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Jail for ‘heartless’ thief

A VIOLENT and anti-social Mildura man who stole a vulnerable 10-year-old boy’s backpack as the child waited for a mate to have a kick of footy has been jailed. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court this week heard 30-year-old Narzzouli Togo was masked and...

31 May 2025
Police & Courts

Man sought by police

A MAN known to frequent the Mildura region is wanted by police. A warrant has been issued for 31-year-old Van Thuart Nguyen’s arrest in relation to drug matters. Nguyen is known to frequent the Mildura, Melton, Brimbank and Whittlesea areas. Anyone...

30 May 2025
Police & Courts

Trap door hid drugs stash, court told

Allan MurphyA MILDURA couple used an elaborately-constructed trapdoor in their rental property to stash drugs they were selling to other users, a court has been told. Police raided the Pearl Avenue property in the early hours of Wednesday morning and...

30 May 2025