Attempted robbery, Hervey Bay
Police have charged a man after a woman was allegedly assaulted by a man trying to steal her car in Torquay yesterday afternoon.
It will be alleged about 4.40pm a 42-year-old Hervey Bay woman walked to her car which was parked in a car park on Freshwater Street when a man demanded the keys to her car.
She refused and a struggle ensured. The man pushed the woman against the car and tried to remove the keys from her hand. She yelled for help and two men approached causing the man to run away.
Police attended and a police dog tracked the man to Urangan Street where a man was arrested.
A 25-year-old Hervey Bay man has been charged with one count of attempted robbery with violence and will appear at the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court today, December 6.
