Armed robbery charge, Hodgson Vale
A 28-year-old local man is due to appear in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court today charged with armed robbery, deprivation of liberty and unlawful use of a motor vehicle following investigations into a break-in of a Hodgson Vale home yesterday morning.
It will be alleged a man armed with a garden fork broke into a Pendoma Drive home sometime between 6.30 and 7am, threatening the two occupants, a 55-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman, forcing the man to kneel on the floor as the woman ran off.
The man grabbed a mobile phone and car keys before driving off in a vehicle belonging to the man.
This vehicle was located abandoned in McGregor Street, Wilsonton a short time later. A man was taken into custody around 10am following a short foot pursuit by police patrolling the area.
The man was remanded in custody overnight and is due in court this morning where he faces a total of 10 charges which also include stealing, trespass, enter dwelling with intent, wilful damage and failing to dispose of a syringe.
The man and woman were not physically injured.
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