Update: Armed man, Upper Coomera
A man has been charged with multiple offences after allegedly making threats towards people while armed with a firearm in Upper Coomera this morning.
It will be alleged around 10.30am the man attended a Meadowbank Drive address armed with a firearm and made threats towards a female resident known to him.
A 67-year-old male neighbour attempted to disarm the man and a struggle ensued.
The man then fled the scene in the female resident’s car and drove to an address at Nerang.
Officers attended the address and the man allegedly fled again in the stolen vehicle.
A short time later police received a report of a car allegedly stolen by a man armed with a firearm on Guy Court at Oxenford.
It is alleged he approached the 18-year-old female driver of the vehicle and threatened her and a 16-year-old male passenger with the firearm.
The woman and boy managed to escape the car before the man drove away in the vehicle.
The man allegedly travelled through Oxenford at high speed before police successfully deployed a tyre deflation device and the man was taken into custody on Tambourine-Oxenford Road around 11.30am.
No one was injured as a result of the incident.
A 21-year-old Upper Coomera man has been charged with two counts of dangerous operation of a vehicle and fail to stop motor vehicle, and one count each of armed robbery, unlawful possession of weapons, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, driving unlicensed and going armed so as to cause fear.
He is due to appear in Southport Magistrates Court tomorrow (November 28).
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