Gold Coast crime: Brazen break-in at popular Coles store in Coomera, unrelated knife threat nearby
Police are hunting for three men who broke into a popular Gold Coast supermarket and made off with a “substantial” haul of cigarettes.
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POLICE are investigating a brazen break-in at a Coles in Upper Coomera where thieves made off with a substantial haul of cigarettes.
Around 2:15am Monday morning, three men broke into the store on the corner of Reserve Rd and Tamborine Oxenford Rd by smashing their way through glass doors to get inside, police said.
Damage was caused to cigarette cabinets before the trio fled the scene with the stolen goods in a vehicle.
A Queensland Police spokesman said investigations were ongoing.
In a separate unrelated incident, police said at around 4:30pm Sunday, a man threatened an employee with a knife at a grocery store on Oakey Creek Rd, Coomera.
Police stated a man and a woman filled a trolley full of meat and walked out into the carpark without paying.
“The couple left the trolley to get a vehicle when a store employee attempted to retrieve the products. The man and woman returned and a confrontation took place at which time the man produced a knife and threatened the employee,” a Queensland Police spokesman said.
Police said the employee backed down and released the trolley with the couple driving off with the stolen groceries.
Investigations are ongoing.
Tradie’s ute hijacked in costly daylight robbery
DECEMBER 1: A 65-year-old plumber was the victim of a brazen daylight car theft Wednesday morning in Varsity Lakes.
Between 8am and 8.10am, Jeffrey Regazzoli parked his white Ford Courier ute – registration 205XOB – in Wattle St, only to have it stolen minutes later.
Mr Regazzoli was speaking with tradesmen at a residential worksite when he saw his vehicle reversing over the footpath, with an unknown, masked man behind the wheel.
Police said Mr Regazzoli ran out into the middle of the road to try to stop the vehicle, but the driver drove around the man and fled the scene.
Mr Regazzoli alleged the vehicle was “headed straight for him”, but swerved around him “just in time” and sped off.
“I jumped in a mate’s ute and we tried to tail him but we lost him,” he said.
All of the man’s tools were inside the vehicle, allegedly worth thousands of dollars.
Mr Regazzoli said he was “extremely stressed” over the incident and had struggled to find enough work due to recent wet weather conditions across the Gold Coast.
Police said investigations were ongoing and no one was injured in the incident.
Coast armed car robber on the run
NOVEMBER 30: POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding a report that a man held a driver at knifepoint on the Gold Coast and stole his car.
A 33-year-old man was sitting in his parked car at Stanhill Dr in Surfers Paradise on Monday night when he was approached by another man.
A Queensland Police spokesman said at about 8pm a man produced a knife on a driver through the open driver’s side window and demanded the car.
The driver got out of the 2011 red Mitsubishi Lancer and the offender and another man jumped into the car and left.
The driver was not physically injured in the incident.
The vehicle was located at 11.30pm Monday night at Orchid Dr in Mount Cotton with damages to the front of the car.
No one has been arrested and police investigations are ongoing.
Coast teen doing Dominos delivery hit by car
November 29, 2021
A CRASH involving a delivery driver has resulted in two people being rushed to hospital on Saturday night.
A witness said a teenage girl working as a Dominos’ delivery driver was allegedly hit by a car in Coomera.
Paramedics arrived at the scene of the Abraham Rd crash at 8.02pm on Saturday, a Queensland Emergency Services spokesman said.
The girl was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition with no obvious injuries.
The man driving the car was transported to the Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition with abdominal pain.
Pictures taken at the scene show the man in his 30s being stretched into the ambulance by paramedics, while the front of a car was smashed from the incident.
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