Media release

COVID-19 – Charges – Checkpoint breach and pursuit

Police

Northern Territory Police have charged a man in relation to breaching biosecurity checkpoints in Darwin and Katherine yesterday.

Detectives from the Katherine Criminal Investigations Branch have charged the 46-year-old man with:

  • Contravention of an Emergency Declaration
  • Driving a vehicle n a dangerous manner – pursuit
  • Resist police

He was remanded to appear in Katherine Local Court on 8 November 2021.