Disturbance, Brassall
Police have charged a man following a disturbance in Brassall yesterday afternoon.
At around 12:45pm police attended an address on Fernvale Road following reports of a man causing a disturbance.
It will be alleged when police arrived a man threw a metal pipe at officers and threatened them with a knife before barricading himself inside a house.
An 85-year-old woman who was at the house was allowed to leave and was not physically injured during the incident.
Police began negotiations with the man who surrendered just after 2:00pm.
A 47-year-old Brassall man has been charged with six counts of serious assault police and one count each of contravention of a domestic violence order, public nuisance and obstruct police.
He is due to appear in Ipswich Magistrates Court on October 5.
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