Break and enter charges, Northgate
Police have charged a man after two homes were broken into this afternoon in Northgate.
It will be alleged around 3pm, a Coulter Street home was broken into and the resident was confronted by a man who demanded her car keys.
It will further be alleged the man hit the 36-year-old woman across the legs with a vaccum cleaner pipe before taking her car keys. The man was confronted by neighbours and fled the scene.
Officers tracked the man to a Ferguson Street residence which he had allegedly broken into however he fled and ran through another house on the same street before being stopped by police as he ran into parkland.
A 22-year-old Mount Sheridan man has been charged with two counts of break and enter and one count each of burglary, attempted robbery and trespass.
He is scheduled to appear before the Brisbane Magistrates Court tomorrow.
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