Daniel Baker: Redland Bay man charged with choking woman
The son of a southeast Queensland real estate power couple has been arrested and charged with choking a Logan woman, who police claim also had a loaded gun pointed at her.
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A Redlands man has been arrested and charged with choking a woman, who police claim also had a loaded gun pointed at her, at a Logan address the same morning he was supposed to be at court facing drug charges.
Redland Bay man Daniel Zachary Baker, 32, the son of real estate power couple Kathy (RE/MAX Bayside Properties Alexandra Hills) and Bruce (RE/MAX Revolution Shailer Park) Baker, was charged with four offences following Wednesday morning’s alleged incident at Tanah Merah.
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They are: choking, possessing unauthorised explosives (ammunition), possessing drug utensils and failure to dispose of a needle and syringe.
The alleged incident is said to have occurred about 8am at an address on the Pacific Mwy at Tanah Merah.
The court heard police will allege that after the female victim was “assaulted, hit and choked”, Mr Baker retrieved a loaded gun and pointed it at her, threatening “I will kill you”.
When police arrived, they allegedly found Mr Baker sitting out the front of the unit complex with a packed bag containing ammunition and a replica weapon, but the other alleged gun was nowhere to be found.
Defence lawyer Bruce Affleck told the court Mr Baker would be “contesting” the substantive charges, citing “concerns about the credibility of the complainant”.
The court heard the day of the alleged offences, Mr Baker was due in Beenleigh Magistrates Court on a number of drug charges on which he was on bail for.
The court also heard he had been handed a four-year suspended sentence in 2015 for drug trafficking.
Magistrate Clare Kelly refused him bail.
Mr Baker’s charges will be mentioned again on November 21.