Operation Regional Mongoose: Teen charged with property-related offences after car fire in Cowra

A teenage boy has been charged with a string of property-related offences after reports of a car fire in a rural town. Here’s more.

Liverpool St, Cowra. Photo: Google Maps.

A teen has been charged with a string of traffic and property-related offences after a car was well alight under a bridge in a town in the state’s central west.

Emergency services were called to the low-level bridge adjacent to Grenfell Rd, Cowra, following reports a Subaru sedan was well alight about 4.30am on Monday.

Chifley Police District officers attended and commenced an investigation.

A police statement said checks revealed the car was allegedly stolen from a home on Liverpool St, Cowra, between 7.30pm on Sunday and about 4.30am on Monday.

Following inquiries, police were patrolling a street in the town when they stopped and spoke to a 17-year-old boy sitting in a park about 2am on Tuesday.

The teenager will face a children’s court on Tuesday.

“The boy was subjected to a search, and police located gloves, a box cutter and keys to a Subaru,” police said in a statement.

He was taken to Cowra Police Station and charged with stealing a motor vehicle, aggravated break and enter dwelling in company to steal, taking and driving a vehicle without consent, custody of a knife in a public place and possession of housebreaking implements.

He was also charged with driving a vehicle on the road while never obtaining a licence, goods in personal custody suspected of being stolen and committing S154C offence and disseminating.

He was refused bail to appear at a children’s court on Tuesday.

Inquiries under Regional Mongoose continue.