Robbery and unlawful use of a motor vehicle, Home Hill
Police have charged two people following a string of incidents in the Townsville District yesterday morning.
It will be alleged at around 11.30am, a man entered a bakery on Ninth Avenue in Home Hill, jumping over the counter with a large knife and demanding money from a female staff member.
The employee complied with the man’s demands, handing over a sum of cash before he fled the business and left the scene in a vehicle.
Preliminary investigations indicate this vehicle, which had been stolen from Townsville, was later abandoned with the two people inside hitchhiking along the Bruce Highway.
A short time later officers operating a mobile radar south of Gumlu on the Bruce Highway attempted to intercept a vehicle allegedly travelling at 140kms per hour.
In doing so it will be alleged the vehicle was observed driving dangerously with four people in the vehicle, two of whom appeared to be being held against their will.
A man and a girl were subsequently taken into custody after they abandoned the second vehicle near Merinda, north of Bowen.
A 21-year-old Currajong man has been charged with five counts of breach of bail, two counts each of deprivation of liberty and unlawful use of motor vehicle, and one count each of dangerous operation of a vehicle, endangering the safety of a person in a vehicle with intent, armed robbery, stealing, and unlawful entry of vehicle for committing indictable offence.
He is due to appear in the Townsville Magistrates Court tomorrow morning, October 31.
A 15-year-old Condon girl has been charged with two counts each of deprivation of liberty and unlawful use of motor vehicle, plus one count each of stealing, dangerous operation of a vehicle, unlawful entry of a vehicle and serious assault police.
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Source: Brisbane Crime Alert
