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[Link] Man arrested after allegedly throwing keg through restaurant window and punching police
Read: 3/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Officers turned up to the Original Pancake Kitchen in Gilbert Place about 3am after reports a man had smashed the front window of the restaurant with a keg, causing significant damage. Pieces of glass hit customers inside the restaurant but none of them was injured.
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[Link] Police officer who assaulted teenager spared jall because of own trauma at work
Read: 1/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Andrew Allan Jaunay was handed a three-month suspended sentence with a year-long good behaviour bond for the 2013 assault of then-17-year-old Matthew Odgers. Jaunay was with other police officers when they stopped and searched Mr Odgers in a Whyalla Stuart street in October of that year.
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[Link] Park lands hub helps Aboriginal rough sleepers return to Country
Read: 9/12/2021 indaily.com.au
Puti on Kaurna Yerta in the southern park lands. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDailySince opening in October, the Puti on Kaurna Yerta hub has helped 75 Aboriginal people – approximately half of whom came from the Northern Territory – to travel from Adelaide back to Country.
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[Link] Operation Ironside nets 18 more suspects as police seize guns and drugs
Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Another 18 men have been arrested in South Australia as part of ongoing Operation Ironside investigations, including two who have been charged with false imprisonment.
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[Link] 'He has been significantly punished': Prison escape lands man in solitary confinement for a year, court hears
Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Jason Gregory Burdon has pleaded guilty to escaping from the maximum security prison's kitchen area in December last year, using items of clothing as a rope to climb out of a metal louvre window.
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[Link] SA Police investigate how COVID-positive woman who sparked NT lockdown entered state
Read: 8/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Police is investigating if a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 and sparked the Northern Territory's lockdown had the relevant travel permits into South Australia from Victoria.
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[Link] Alleged stalker arrested and charged over sexual assaults
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Police have arrested a 35-year-old man and charged him with seven counts of stalking as well as rape and unlawful sexual intercourse. It is alleged the crimes occurred across the Adelaide metro area and that, on most occasions, he approached and met victims through online platforms.
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[Link] Adelaide emergency doctor withdraws legal challenge against mandatory vaccinations
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide emergency doctor who sought to challenge the state's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has withdrawn his legal challenge in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.
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[Link] 'Sovereign citizen' posts video after failing to appear in court on firearms offences
Read: 2/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Solange Goodes, 42, was arrested at her farm in Sandy Creek earlier this year, after police allege she threatened them when they came to the property to check if registered guns were properly secured.
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[Link] Truck driver accused of spitting on and assaulting police at border checkpoint refused bail
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Brendan J Moore, 57, faced the Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with assaulting a police officer and another worker, and resisting police.
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[Link] Extinction Rebellion protesters glued to road in Adelaide's CBD call for climate change action
Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Extinction Rebellion protesters have glued their hands and feet to the road in the heart of Adelaide's CBD, demanding immediate political action on climate change. Traffic is being disrupted by the gathering, some of whom have chained themselves to one another and to prams.
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[Link] First person sentenced in SA after Operation Ironside arrests to spend two years behind bars
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The first person in South Australia to be sentenced as part of Operation Ironside will spend at least two years in prison for transporting millions of dollars' worth of methamphetamine earlier this year.
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[Link] Man spared jail after assaulting attendant on flight from Melbourne to Adelaide
Read: 12/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Timothy Kenneth Hawkes, 29, was flying from Melbourne to Adelaide in May after South Australian authorities announced the state's border was closing to Victoria due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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[Link] Elderly driver hit with hammer in 'disgraceful' attack while giving a lift to stranger
Read: 12/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
South Australian police are investigating an assault in which an elderly driver was hit in the head with a hammer while he gave a lift to another man, who then stole his car.
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[Link] Police investigate after car set alight in driveway of Mount Gambier home
Read: 10/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police are investigating a suspicious car fire at Mount Gambier overnight, in what appears to be a targeted attack on a woman who tested positive to COVID-19 earlier this week.
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[Link] Police officer's stalker possessed explosives in 'misguided' belief they were valuable, court told
Read: 6/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Oswald Bruggemans, 65, has pleaded guilty to stalking a police officer at Victor Harbor in February.
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[Link] 'My husband would still be alive': Widow of SA Police officer claims ICAC delays contributed to husband's suicide
Read: 22/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The wife of a senior South Australian police officer who took his own life during an investigation by the state's anti-corruption watchdog has criticised the organisation and its processes. Doug Barr spent 43 years in the force and was involved with the investigation into the Salt Creek kidnapping.
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[Link] Arrest warrant issued for man charged over house parties during SA lockdown
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide court has issued a warrant for a man accused of holding multiple house parties during South Australia's last COVID-19 lockdown. Bitanya Sibeko failed to appear for a hearing on his charge of failing to comply with a health directive.
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[Link] Three charged for allegedly trying to shoot drugs into SA prison by bow and arrow
Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Three people have been arrested for allegedly trying to use a bow and arrow to shoot drugs into the Port Augusta Prison. Late yesterday afternoon, police were called when three people were seen in a car acting suspiciously behind the jail.
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[Link] South Australians, including a couple in their 60s, arrested after entering the state without a permit
Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Six people, including a couple from Kangaroo Island and another pair who crossed fields to enter the state from Victoria, have been arrested and charged after separate breaches of South Australia's COVID-19 restrictions.
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[Link] Adelaide man charged with extra offences after counter-terrorism investigation
Read: 26/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide man has been charged with additional offences as a result of a joint counter-terrorism investigation. The 33-year-old man was arrested in April and charged with three offences over the alleged possession of an explosive device.
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[Link] NSW man who escaped SA hotel quarantine to go to pub sentenced to 14 days in prison
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Paul McElhinney, 33, pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to failing to comply with a COVID-19 direction. McElhinney, who lives in Sydney, was quarantining at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Adelaide's CBD after returning from his father's funeral in Scotland.
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[Link] Sleeping man dragged from car by masked attackers and assaulted in Adelaide's north
Read: 22/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police said the man was asleep in his green VY Commodore on Jessie Road at Paralowie in Adelaide's north when he was dragged from his car and assaulted by the masked attackers about 4:30am. The two men then allegedly stole the car and sped off.
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[Link] Man who allegedly escaped hotel quarantine and went to SA pub arrested
Read: 18/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An investigation has found flaws in South Australia's medi-hotel security protocols, which allowed an international arrival to leave hotel quarantine for eight hours and attend a nearby pub and fast food outlet last week.
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