Update: Armed robbery, Maroochydore
Police have charged a man after a woman had her car stolen by an alleged armed man at Maroochydore yesterday morning.
It will be alleged at around 8.55am, a man approached a woman who had just parked her car in a local shopping centre car park in Second Avenue, Maroochydore.
The man crouched down and opened the driver’s side door and told the woman he was armed with a gun. The woman exited the car and the man entered the driver’s seat and drove away via the Parker Street entrance.
The woman was not physically harmed during the robbery.
A 19-year-old Braken Ridge man will appear today in Maroochydore Magistrates Court has been charged with one count each of robbery, driving under the influence of liquor and unlicenced driving.
