A stolen Ford Ranger ute has been used to target taxi drivers in Alice Springs, causing significant damage and threatening the safety of both public and frontline workers. The incidents occurred within a 30-minute span early Friday morning.
( Police allege a group of young offenders in a stolen ute targeted taxi drivers in Alice Springs overnight.An Alice Springs taxi manager says more needs to be done to protect the public and frontline workers .Taxi drivers have allegedly been targeted by a group of young offenders in a stolen ute in Alice Springs , where a taxi was rammed and its driver robbed twice in the space of 30 minutes early on Friday.
"A male youth offender has approached the taxi driver armed with an iron bar," Sergeant Dunn alleged. The ute was located a short time after the four incidents but police said the culprits remained at large.ABC Alice Springs: Xavier MartinAlice Springs Taxis network manager Ann Mellors said drivers were increasingly becoming the victims of assaults, abuse and violence in the troubled town.
The NT government recently passed a raft of new legislation as part of its law-and-order agenda, which included minimum mandatory prison sentences for assaults on frontline workers, including taxi drivers.Photo shows A woman standing in front of an apartment complex and smiling.
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