Detectives from the Toowoomba Property Crime Unit have charged a 19-year-old man with 33 offences in relation to an ongoing investigation into multiple property offences and an armed robbery with violence incident in Toowoomba last month.
Police will allege that between 30 January and 17 March, the man was involved in a series of break and enter and vehicle offences throughout Toowoomba, including an incident on Thorley Street in Middle Ridge on 9 February where a 42-year-old woman and an 8-year-old girl were threatened with an axe before the offenders stole property and the victim’s vehicle, a 2022 C300 Mercedes-Benz.
Neither the 42-year-old woman nor the 8-year-old girl were physically injured.
Following investigations, officers from the Darling Downs District Tactical Crime Squad (TCS) attended a Wine Drive address in Wilsonton Heights on 19 March, where they took a 19-year-old South Toowoomba man into custody.
He has been charged with seven counts of unlawful use of a motor vehicle, six counts of attempted enter dwelling, three counts each of enter premises and commit and enter dwelling with intent, two counts each of stealing, willful damage, armed with intent to break and enter, face masked, enter dwelling and commit and driving without a licence and one count each of armed robbery and attempted enter premises and commit.
He has been remanded in custody to appear in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court on 29 April.
Investigations continue.
Disrupting robbery-related offending forms part of Operation Yankee Forge, an enhanced six-month statewide operation aimed at reducing the number of victims of crime and targeting offenders who cause the most harm in our communities.
The operation will now see local police continue their work surging into streets and suburbs across Ipswich, Darling Downs and South West districts ensuring community safety.
Link to earlier release: Break and enter and armed robbery with violence offences, Toowoomba – Queensland Police News
