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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] Five arrested after shots fired while cars 'chased each other' in peak-hour Adelaide traffic
Read: 23/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Four men and a woman have been arrested over several incidents in Adelaide's north in which shots were fired, including between cars. Firearms including a gel blaster were seized by police, who believe the incidents are linked.
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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] 'Implausible' that father tripped and fell on daughter while sweeping floor
Read: 23/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide man has been found guilty of recklessly causing harm to his newborn baby by violently shaking her. WARNING: This story contains graphic content that readers may find distressing.
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[Link] SA Ambulance Service patients' personal information stolen
Read: 11/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The SA Ambulance Service says the personal details of 28,000 patients have been stolen but there is no indication they have been misused. The patient records are linked to about 32,000 ambulance call-outs between 2000 and 2003.
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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] Adelaide father-of-three Joshua Luke Matheson handed five-year jail term over $500k tax fraud
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide man who made up employers and income to defraud the Australian Tax Office out of half a million dollars has been jailed for five years. Joshua Luke Matheson, 34, was found guilty by a jury of dishonestly obtaining and attempting to dishonestly obtain a financial advantage by deception.
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[Link] Ex-Labor staffer accused of child sex offences claims to have 'no interest in children'
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Benjamin John Waters pleaded guilty to accessing and transmitting child abuse material using a carriage service in January 2021, as well as two counts of possessing child exploitation material in March 2021, including images and videos of children under the age of 14.
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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] '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] 'Taken a long time to arrive, but it generally hits the mark': code of conduct tabled in South Australian parliament
Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Members of the South Australian parliament will officially be banned from harassing staff and other MPs under a long-awaited code of conduct tabled today. The draft code covers five areas, including: conflicts of interest, gifts, public resources, confidentiality, and standards of behaviour.
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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] Adelaide paedophile to plead guilty to 142 more offences
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The lawyer for an HIV-positive paedophile who talked about infecting children with the virus has told an Adelaide court his client will admit to committing almost 180 child exploitation crimes.
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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] 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] Public servants 'no longer mandated' to report misconduct following controversial ICAC curtailment
Read: 9/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Public servants have been told they no longer have a mandatory requirement to report misconduct and maladministration in their workplaces, as new laws that govern South Australia's anti-corruption watchdog come into force.
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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] 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] SA teacher cries as she apologises for grooming high school student for sex
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Renee Underwood, 34, fronted the District Court today charged with making a child amenable to sexual activity after earlier pleading guilty to the crime. The victim was an aspiring male medical student who was groomed between July and August last year.
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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] Man who stabbed nurse at Adelaide hospital to spend another 10 months in mental health facility
Read: 27/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Trent Jason Miller was arrested in June 2019, and charged with causing serious harm to the Lyell McEwin Hospital nurse. He was found not guilty of harm, due to mental incompetence, earlier this year.
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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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[Link] Two men in hospital after alleged stabbing in Adelaide's north
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police were called to a reserve on Leslie Avenue at Blair Athol about 10:15pm yesterday. They found a Parafield Gardens man in his car in nearby Alice Avenue with stab wounds to his abdomen.
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[Link] Woman hands herself in over theft of electric wheelchair from Adelaide home
Read: 3/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The electric wheelchair was returned to its owner over the weekend after being found dumped at Cowandilla, around a kilometre from where it was stolen, about 12:30am on Saturday.
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