Carnarvon crime reaches new 10-year high with burglaries and assaults on the rise

Crime in Carnarvon has hit a new peak for the decade with more than 1,900 offences over the past financial year.

Community leaders are concerned by the level of youth crime in the West Australian town, 900 kilometres north of Perth, including burglaries, cars being hit with fishing weights and rocks fired from homemade slingshots.