A teenager has been charged with allegedly stealing a car following a break in at a home in Coffs Harbour.
About 1am on Saturday 15 February 2025, police from Coffs/Clarence Police District were told a teenage boy allegedly forced his way into a home on Oriana Street, Coffs Harbour, and allegedly threatened a 24-year-old man with a knife.
The teenager allegedly damaged the man's phone and stole the man's car keys before he drove away in a Mercedes Benz.
A short time later, police noticed the allegedly stolen car travelling in excess of the speed limit along the Pacific Highway.
The vehicle came to a stop at the intersection of the Pacific Highway and Beryl Street, Coffs Harbour, where the driver, a 16-year-old boy, was arrested.
He was taken to Coffs Harbour Police Station and returned a breath analysis of 0.08.
The teenager was charged with six offences:
- Aggravated break and enter and commit serious indictable offence.
- Destroy or damage property
- Take and drive conveyance without consent of owner
- Drive recklessly furiously or speed/manner dangerous
- Drive with middle range prescribed concentration of alcohol, and
- Never licensed person drive vehicle on road.
The teenager was also charged with aggravated break and enter dwelling etc in company and be carrying in conveyance taken without consent, related to for an alleged break in at Burrawang Parade, Urunga on Thursday 13 February 2025.
He was further charged with enter building/land with intent commit indictable offence, be carried in conveyance taken without consent of owner, enter vehicle or boat without consent of owner/occupier and break and enter house etc steal, related to an alleged car theft at Charlesworth Bay Road, Coffs Harbour on Friday 20 December 2024.
The teen was refused bail to appear at a children's court tomorrow (Sunday 16 February 2025).
