The 19-year-old stole a gun safe from a friend’s home, later claiming he swapped the rifles for drugs. Tristan Andy Cortes appeared via video link from Arthur Gorrie Correction Centre to plead guilty ...

Tristan Andy Cortes pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape in Kingaroy District Court on Wednesday, September 18. Multiple witnesses, including Mr Cortes, gave evidence on the first day of the ...

A 21-year-old man choked his partner on three separate occasions and then stalked her when she escaped him. See what happened in court. On the first occasion in July 2021, Tristan Andy Cortes, then 19 ...

Tristan Andy Cortes, 23, was found not guilty of two counts of rape by a jury in the Kingaroy District Court. He was instead convicted of a single count of engaging in penile intercourse with a ...

A young Qld man believed sex with a teen girl he’d been speaking with online was consensual despite her claims he threatened to kill her if she told, a court has heard. Tristan Andy Cortes, 23, ...

The case of a young Dalby man accused of raping a teenage girl in 2022 has ended in a mistrial during the first day of witness testimony. The trial was expected to run over two or three days, however ...

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A jury has cleared a Dalby man of rape charges but found him guilty of having sex with a minor after hearing differing accounts of their encounter. Tristan Andy Cortes pleaded not guilty to two counts ...