The closure of an educational program for at-risk Aboriginal youth in the region is being suggested as one reason behind the recent jump in crime in the Northern Rivers.
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With US President Trump axing funding for aid programs across the globe, it’s also forced a marine conservation group to start laying off staff and stop work while they ‘work around the clock to fill the $300,000 gap that has been created’.
A man will face Tweed Heads court today on 11 charges, including: stealing a Mercedes Benz failing to stop for a police pursuit twice, plus carrying illegal weapons and housebreaking equipment.
Police have denied bail to a man who allegedly stole two cars on Saturday (December, 2), driving the first into the Rous River, escaping while it was sinking, stealing another and crashing it into an irrigation channel.
Police have arrested a man in a stolen car, who they pursued through Murwillumbah on Thursday and again on Pacific Motorway on Saturday before finally arresting him.
A man charged with 45 offences relating to breaking and entering, stolen motor vehicles, and thefts in the region yesterday was arrested driving a stolen car.
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