Hoon warning: Video shows driver performing burnout at Toowoomba police station

Police have raided a Toowoomba property on Wednesday, seizing electronic devices and arresting a man who they allege belongs to a “hoon cartel”. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.

A hoon who had the audacity to get his mates to film him doing a burnout in the Newtown Police Station driveway has been arrested and charged with a suite of serious traffic offences.

Police allege the 21-year-old Newtown man did the burnout about 10pm on May 28.

Footage of the incident which shows the man spinning his tyres on the driveway before swerving onto Bridge Street was later posted on YouTube.

Darling Downs Country Patrol Acting-Inspector Kim Hill said the offender was linked to a group of high-profile hoons that go by the name “Mexican Hoon Cartel.”

“They move around Brisbane and the Gold Coast and police are hitting them pretty hard,” she said.

Police recovered electronic devices, drugs and registration plates in the raid early Wednesday morning.

The man is charged with multiple serious offences, including dangerous operation of a vehicle, wilful damage of the police property, driving unlicensed, uninsured and unregistered, possessing stolen property, possessing dangerous drugs and possessing a thing used in the commission of a crime.

Insp Hill said police were committed to taking hoons off the streets.

“If you do this sort of stuff you will be identified,” she said.

“You might not see them straight away, but the police will come knocking.”

While a burnout may seem like a harmless prank, Insp Hill said they had the potential to cause serious injuries to both the driver and the person filming the incident.

“If you do this sort of thing, you will be caught and you will be charged with some serious offences,” she said.

The man is on bail, to face the Toowoomba Magistrates Court on July 13.

Originally published as Hoon warning: Video shows driver performing burnout at Toowoomba police station