Robbery charges, Harlaxton
Police have charged a man and a teenage boy after the alleged robbery of two people in a house at Harlaxton yesterday.
It will be alleged at 11pm the 68-year-old woman and 83-year-old man were at their Goombungee Road house when two males entered and threatened the woman with a small knife. The males then searched the house removing a few personal items.
The males stole keys for a Proton sedan and drove the car down the driveway however the car became bogged in a paddock across the road and they fled on foot.
It will be alleged on Saturday morning police were conducting further inquires in Goombungee Road when they located two people matching the descriptions of the males and subsequently located some of the stolen property.
A 32-year-old Wilsonton Heights man has been charged with three counts of enter dwelling with intent, two counts of robbery in company and one count each of serious assault of a person over 60 and unlawful use of a motor vehicle. He will appear in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court tomorrow, August 27.
A 15-year-old Harristown boy has been charged with three counts of enter dwelling with intent and two counts of robbery in company and unlawful use of a motor vehicle. He has also been charged with one count each of serious assault of a person over 60, receiving tainted property and burglary.
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