Shirtless man car jacking spree across Brisbane ends in police chase through bushland.

A property owner’s CCTV has allegedly captured a shirtless carjacker ‘walking around and having a drink’ in their yard, while on the run from police, who tracked him across several suburbs.

A man has been arrested after the alleged theft of a taxi and the attempted carjacking of another vehicle. File picture

A man spotted running shirtless through a suburb north of Brisbane and hiding out with a drink in a woman’s yard, has been arrested after he was tracked across several suburbs after the theft of a taxi, the attempted theft of two other cars and a hit-and-run accident.

The incident began on O’Connell Terrace at Bowen Hills just after 9am with the attempted theft of a car.

The man demanded keys and attempted to enter the vehicle. He was unsuccessful and fled on foot.

A short time later, the man allegedly attempted to steal another vehicle nearby.

He fled on foot and short time later stole a taxi from nearby Butterfield St at Herston, which was then involved in a hit and run on Settlement Rd at Keperra at around 10.20am.

“No one was injured during the crash,” a Queensland Police spokeswoman said.

Police and POLAIR tracked the vehicle through multiple suburbs, before the vehicle came to a stop near Collins and Old Northern roads in Bunya.

Its understood the man fled to nearby bushland and was located a short time after in the back yard of a residence on Gardonia Place, Albany Creek, and was arrested.

After receiving a call from a neighbour, Albany Creek resident Jillian Daly checked her security cameras to find the alleged carjacker walking around her property at Gardonia Place, which backs onto the Bunyaville Conservation Park.

Ms Daly said CCTV footage showed the man walking around the acreage property, before being arrested by police, after hiding in a shed by the pool.

“We got a call from the neighbour saying that there was cops in the street, helicopters, and then we checked our cameras when we were on the phone to the neighbour, and he was actually just walking around having a drink,” she claimed.

“He’d put on someone’s clothes and I think he was wearing one of our hats, drinking a drink.

“He’d been there for maybe an hour or so, or he’d change clothes while he was at our property.”

After alerting the neighbour to the sighting, Ms Daly said the police sprinted from their neighbours house to hers to catch the alleged offender.

“The police were at the neighbours house when we were on the phone to her, and then we’d sort of seen him on the cameras, and then the police ran from her house to ours,” she claimed.

“They were looking around for a while, and then they found him in our shed.”

Ms Daly said the CCTV footage showed the man being escorted out of the property by police.

“It was pretty crazy, it didn’t feel real because we didn’t think it would ever be our house,” she said.

Residents had taken to social media commenting on seeing a shirtless man seen run through streets in the suburb.

Investigations are continuing.

Originally published as Shirtless man car jacking spree across Brisbane ends in police chase through bushland.