Update: Robbery with violence, Tamborine Mountain
Police investigating the robbery of a man at Tamborine Mountain early this morning have released an image of a vehicle stolen during the incident.
Around 2.45am the 32-year-old man was asleep in his sedan in a shopping centre carpark when a stolen white Nissan Navara dual cab utility with three men and a boy inside parked nearby.
Two men got out of the vehicle, one of them armed with a sledge hammer and the other with a metal pole. They smashed the driver’s side window and assaulted the man with the sledge hammer.
They demanded he exit the vehicle and hand over the keys. The man complied with their demands and the group drove off in the two vehicles.
The man sustained facial injuries during the assault and was treated by paramedics at the scene.
Two of the man’s dogs Bun Bun and Hercules ran from the vehicle, with one returning, however ‘Bun Bun’ – a white Staffordshire Bull Terrier with a brindle eye patch (pictured), remains missing.
Police later located the Navara abandoned following a traffic crash on the Logan Motorway at Meadowbrook around 4am. The 37-year-old male driver of the second vehicle involved in the crash was not injured.
The man’s vehicle, a silver 2012 Holden Commodore station wagon with Queensland registration 164 SLB and a distrinctive orange stripe (pictured) is yet to be located.
One of the men involved is described as being about 188cm tall with a slim build, dark complexion and was wearing a t-shirt, shorts, a hat and a black and red t-shirt covering his face.
Police are investigating the group being involved in three other burglary incidents at Canungra and Beaudesert shortly before the robbery.
Anyone who may see the vehicle is urged not to approach it but to immediately call police.
If you have information for police, contact Policelink by providing information using the online suspicious activity form 24hrs per day at www.police.qld.gov.au/reporting.
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