Update: Robbery, Caboolture
Police have charged three men following an alleged robbery incident at Caboolture this morning.
It will be alleged at about 5.30am in the northbound lanes of the Bruce Highway, a stolen Kia hatch was involved in a traffic crash with a truck.
It will be alleged three men who were in the Kia threatened the male driver of another car with a hammer and demanded his car however he refused to leave the driver’s seat.
The men then approached the female driver who had stopped to offer assistance.
The three men demanded the woman hand over her car keys, to which she declined and she threw her keys into the southbound lanes of the Bruce Highway.
One of the men retrieved the keys from the roadway prior to the three men fleeing the scene in the woman’s Hyundai Santa Fe in a northerly direction.
No one was injured during the incident.
At 9am police observed the stolen Hyundai in Mackenzie Street at Toowoomba and two men were arrested as they exited the vehicle.
It will be alleged the Kio Rio had been stolen from a Wilsonton unit in the sometime after 10pm on July 16.
Police attended at a Wilsonton residence and located a third man around 11.30am.
A 19-year-old Wilsonton man, a 19-year-old Rockville man and a 20-year-old Rockville man have all been charged with robbery in company, attempted armed robbery, stealing of a vehicle, stealing and two counts of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
They will all appear at the Toowoomba Magistrates Court tomorrow, July 18.
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