Sixteen people in seven days: that’s how many police said had been charged with domestic violence related offences across the Tweed Byron district leading up to Friday 17 October.
The figure was more than double the seven reported the previous Friday, and higher than the twelve reported the week before.
Police said eight of last week’s domestic violence offence charges were for assault, seven for contravening Apprehended Violences Orders, and one for stalking and/or intimidation.
Other arrests reported included a 61-year-old Coopers Shoot man charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm after ‘a road rage related matter involving a neighbour,’ police said in a social media post.
Officers said he was due to appear at the Byron Bay Local Court on 27 October.
Members of the public pursue Ocean Shores drink driver
Members of the public were reported to have followed a 36-year-old Ocean Shores woman after she crashed her vehicle into a parked car in Ocean Shores and then drove off.
Attending police said she later returned a high range blood alcohol concentration reading of 0.223.
She was due to appear before the Mullumbimby Local Court on 5 November.
She was one of seventeen people charged for road and/or traffic offences, including eleven for drink driving, three of them alleged repeat offenders.
Forty charged across district
Police said they charged two people for driving whilst disqualified and that both were repeat offenders.
They charged another two people for driving whilst suspended; one person for driving with an expired licence; and another for driving whilst never having been licensed.
Five people were also charged for the unlawful possession of prohibited drugs.
Police said they arrested and charged a total of 40 people with a variety of offences at Tweed Heads and Byron Bay Police Stations over the week.
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