Charges – Assault Worker – Alice Springs
Where: Gap Road, Alice Springs, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
The Northern Territory Police Force has charged a 42-year-old man in relation to an assault that occurred in Alice Springs on Wednesday morning.
Around 10:30am, it is alleged the man attempted to enter a licensed premises on Gap Road but was refused entry and directed to leave multiple times by an adult female employee. He allegedly punched the employee twice to the face, causing her to fall to the ground, before leaving the location.
The victim attended hospital for assessment after suffering bruising and swelling.
Police commenced investigations and around 8:50am yesterday morning, the 42-year-old was located and arrested at a residence on South Terrace.
He has since been charged with assaulting a worker and was remanded to appear in the Alice Springs Local Court today.
— NT PoliceCrime in the Alice Springs council area
Alice Springs is a council area in Northern Territory with about 30,875 residents. It has a Crime Score 93 out of 100 (very high), 5th of 362 councils nationally.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (94th percentile), break-ins (98th percentile), homicide (95th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 93.
- Violent
- 6,708 per 100k
- Property
- 12,732 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 2,575 per 100k
- Theft
- 3,968 per 100k
See the full Alice Springs crime profile
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