A teenage boy has been charged following an investigation into an alleged aggravated break and enter on Central Coast.
Officers attached to Brisbane Water Police District, operating under Strike Force Connect – which forms part of a wider regional investigative strategy under Operation Regional Mongoose North - have been investigating a break and enter at North Avoca, where an SUV was stolen.
Operation Regional Mongoose is a police operation to tackle serious property-related crime committed predominately by young offenders.
Police will allege about 1.00am on Thursday 16 January 2025, a group of young people broke into a home on Bradleys Road, North Avoca, and stole the keys to a Land Rover Discovery and a mobile phone while the occupants of the house were asleep, before driving off in the vehicle.
Following an investigation by strike force officers, about 10.00am today (Friday 14 February 2025), police arrested a 16-year-old boy at Bateau Bay.
He was taken to Wyong Police Station where he was charged with six offences – be carried in conveyance taken without consent of owner, drive conveyance taken without consent of owner, drive whilst unlicensed and three counts of shoplifting.
He was refused bail by police and appeared before a children's court today (Friday 14 February 2025), where he was granted conditional bail, to appear before the same children's court on Friday 28 February 2025.
Investigations continue.
