The man accused of shooting a father-of-three who was walking with his family in Surfers Paradise last December has been freed on bail.
Rick El Masri, 35, is charged with shooting Hylton Miller, 42, on December 4 last year after he fired a handgun indiscriminately from balcony of an apartment of high rise Circle on Cavill.
GOLD Coast Mayor Ron Clarke has ordered an inquiry into the email intercept operation run by council officials.
The report is to be presented to the full council on Monday.
Bill Potts
Gun licences on the Gold Coast have risen by 36 per cent over the past two years, nearly double the figure for the rest of the state.
There’s also been a growing increase in the number of gun related incidents.
Some say fear of growing home invasions is driving the rise in ownership while others point to an increase in criminal gangs. So what is it? Bill Potts is a criminal lawyer based on the Gold Coast.
Bill Potts speaks to Channel 9 about the decision by the Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) to execute a search warrant on a residence in Southport. The Gold Coast bat population needs to be addressed by DERM.
A man charged with identity fraud was represented by Potts Lawyers in a bail hearing.
VIOLENCE: The crime scene at the third in a spate of recent Gold Coast shootings which the Queensland deputy premier has said is linked to organised crime. Picture: Mike Batterham Source: Gold Coast Bulletin
OVERDOSE: Police officer Lynette Jones escaped a drug-driving charge after her lawyers successfully argued she didn’t know what she was doing because she had taken the controversial sleeping drug Stilnox. Picture: Kate Czerny Source: Gold Coast Bulletin
A SUSPENDED Gold Coast policewoman has beaten a drug-driving charge after her lawyers successfully argued she was “sleep-driving” and did not even know she was at the wheel.
THE Queensland Police Union has made its position clear – if you assault a cop you should go straight to jail, but a leading Gold Coast defence lawyer believes calls for mandatory sentencing are a “massive over-reaction.”
THREE men charged over a clandestine drug `mega lab’ on the Gold Coast have been granted bail on the condition they post significant cash sureties.
Andreas Schmidt, 44, Dane James Marriott, 36, and Darren Cutting, 29, faced the Southport Magistrates Court today charged with producing drugs and possessing drugs and drug-related items at a Currumbin Valley property.
The first annual conference of the Australian Defence Lawyers Alliance ADLA was held successfully last weekend at the Sofitel Broadbeach. This was a gathering of the country’s largest criminal law firms.