Police have charged a man following the alleged theft of a motor vehicle and several property, traffic and drug-related offences in Gladstone over the past week.
Between 2am on Saturday, September 21 and 1.20pm on Sunday, September 22, a break and enter occurred at a residence in South Gladstone and a number of items were stolen, including a Hyundai iLoad owned by a local business. This vehicle was later located at around 12.50am on Sunday, September 29 on Pashley Street in Clinton.
Around 5.40pm on Monday, September 30, police sighted a Hyundai Accent allegedly bearing false plates being driven by the man on Auckland Street, South Gladstone. Upon attempting to intercept the vehicle, it is alleged the vehicle continued to be driven dangerously through multiple red lights.
Around 1.30pm on Tuesday, October 1, police observed the same vehicle with two different false plates in Gladstone Central, where attempts were made to intercept the vehicle at a set of lights before the man allegedly drove off at speed.
At approximately 2am on Wednesday, October 2 a 39-year-old man was located in the same vehicle in a carpark on Handley Drive, Boyne Island where he was arrested.
Police conducted a search of the vehicle and allegedly located a clip seal bag containing an amount of methylamphetamine, a set of keys for a Hyundai iLoad vehicle along with a number of utensils, and weapons.
The 39-year-old man was charged with three counts each of driving whilst disqualified and use of false plates on a vehicle, two counts each of evasion, possessing dangerous drugs, and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, and one count each of unlawful use of a motor vehicle, possessing utensils, possessing a knife in a public place, possessing tainted property, and contravene order to access information.
He has been remanded in custody and is due to reappear before Gladstone Magistrates Court on November 26.
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