2025.4.4 Gold Coast jet-ski shop targeted in late-night break-in
A brazen thief smashed his way into a family-run jet-ski business on the Gold Coast overnight.
The incident, captured on security footage, shows the suspect, wearing a hoodie and gloves, forcing his way through the glass door with a crowbar.
“He came prepared,” said Jet Ski World owner Scott Jacquet.
Undeterred by the blaring alarms, the offender spent nearly 10 minutes rummaging through the store, searching for valuables, but left empty handed.
CCTV footage shows him doubling back to retrieve his crowbar before making a swift getaway.
“I think once the alarm went off and he couldn’t find anything of value, he was out of here,” Jacquet said.
Police arrived on the scene a short time later but the offender remains on the run.
“Luckily, as far as we can see, nothing’s been stolen, just damage to the glass door,” Jacquet said.
The family-run business is now left to pick up the pieces.
“It’s very frustrating and disappointing,” Jacquet said.
“We work so hard to make a dollar, and then you’ve got people like this.”
2025.4.3 Lisa Mott cold case detectives receive more than 190 new reports from public
Detectives investigating the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl near Collie more than 40 years ago say fresh search efforts have generated more than 100 new reports, but no clear breakthrough.
Lisa Mott was last seen getting into a yellow panel van on Forrest Street in Collie, 200 kilometres south of Perth, around 9pm on October 30, 1980.
It was only the third time her mother had let her go out at night without an adult.
A renewed effort to engage the public sparked a search of bushland near Collie last week, focused around a similar yellow van.
Cold Case Squad detectives said the search — to be the first of several around the town — yielded an “amazing” community response, but no case-solving evidence.
“They’ve never forgotten Lisa, they’ve never forgotten the family,” Detective Sergeant Greg Dowding said.
“So, as long as we keep that information coming in then the closer we’ll get.”
Van still in focus
While last week’s search located an external exhaust pipe, it was not connected to the van, which was dumped in Mumballup State Forest and first reported in 1996.
But the vehicle remains a point of interest, due to the ongoing similarity to the van Lisa was seen getting into.
Sergeant Dowding said police remained keen to identify its owner, and unrelated reports generated by the search were still being looked at.
“There are other things they [the public] might know of … or haven’t reported before,” he said.
“The amount of information we’re getting has been amazing and that’s a credit to the community.”
Sergeant Dowding said the information came from across the state, buoying confidence that police would eventually solve the cold case.
“We always go in with the attitude that we’re able to solve an investigation, so that’s the attitude we run with,” he said.
A $1 million reward for information that leads to an arrest or conviction in the Lisa Mott case remains unclaimed.
Police will continue investigations in Collie, but are yet to identify other areas of interest.
2025.4.2 Three women injured in dingo attack on Queensland’s K’gari
Tourists have been warned to take care on Queensland island K’Gari ahead of the Easter school holidays after three women were reportedly bitten by dingoes.
A Queensland Ambulance spokesperson said the women in their 20s were left with minor lacerations to their legs at 2.30pm (3.30pm AEDT) yesterday.
The women were assessed by paramedics at the nearby Happy Valley ambulance station at 6pm (7pm AEDT).
All three women declined hospitalisation.
This is not the first dingo attack at the popular tourist destination this year.
Back in January a four-year-old girl was bitten by a dingo after the animal reportedly charged at her and her 12-year-old sibling.
A three-year-old child was bitten on the back of the leg in a separate attack on the island a week earlier.
Visitors are urged to practice “dingo-safe” behaviour, including always walking in groups and carrying a stick and no running.
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