Police chase ends in with two police cars rammed and tyres shot out, court hears
AN aspiring mortician knew the jig was up when police cornered her and her boyfriend in an Upper Coomera shopping centre car park following a chase along the M1. Two police cars were rammed before police shot out the car’s tyres.
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AN aspiring mortician knew the jig was up when police cornered her and her boyfriend in an Upper Coomera shopping centre car park following a chase along the M1.
“We are (expletive),” she said to her boyfriend as police surrounded them.
The March 13 chase ended Bonnie and Clyde style with two police cars being rammed and police shooting out the tyres of the stolen car to stop the pair getting away.
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Sian Brittney Fleming, 22, pleaded guilty in Southport Magistrates Court today to two counts of unlawful use of a motor vehicle, driving without a licence, failing to appear in court and unlawful entry into a motor vehicle.
Fleming, from Upper Coomera, will spend the next 12 months on probation after she was a passenger for the joy ride with her boyfriend, Mitchell Craig Kiehne, who was allegedly driving.
Magistrate Donald MacKenzie warned Fleming, who has a two-year-old child, to be careful about who she associated with.
“What it does who here is that there is a level of lawlessness in your behaviour,” he said.
“If you continue to hang around with this man you are going to end up at Brisbane Women’s Correctional Facility.”
Police prosecutor Senior Constable Matt Brooks said just before 5pm police noticed the stolen car travelling south on the M1 with numberplates which had been modified to show different letters.
The police helicopter followed the car to carpark at Coomera City Centre where two police cars surrounded the stolen car.
Snr Const. Brooks said the car then rammed two police cars which were blocking it in.
That was when Fleming told a man alleged to be Kiehne who was driving they were not going to get out of the situation.
The pair then rammed the two police cars before police shot the tyres out to prevent the car from going anywhere.
Snr Brooks said Fleming was also caught with a stolen car in her driveway on November 13.
She told police she had borrowed it from a friend and that she had driven it earlier that day.
Police testing Flemming for drugs and found she had driven with methylamphetamine in her system.
Defence lawyer Steve Cavanagh said Fleming had not been in trouble with the law until she met Kiehne, who is currently in custody.
“She was a passenger in the vehicle and she had no control of it,” he said.
Mr Cavanagh said Fleming’s mother had recently been diagnosed with cancer.
Fleming was also disqualified from holding a licence for four months.
Kiehne will appear court in relation to the incident at a later date.
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