Elsie May Baker: Woman arrested in dramatic Main Beach take-down appears in Southport court
One of the 10 teenagers arrested after police tracked two allegedly stolen vehicles to a Gold Coast suburb has been named for the first time. Read the details.
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A YOUNG woman arrested along with nine other juveniles in a dramatic take-down after police tracked two allegedly stolen cars to the Gold Coast claims she’ll fight the charges.
Elsie May Baker appeared in Southport Magistrates Court on Monday for robbery and unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
It is alleged the 18-year-old was one of five teenagers travelling in a stolen Subaru Forrester in Main Beach just after 6pm on Saturday.
Police were searching for the vehicle and an allegedly stolen Suzuki Swift at the time.
Five police cars and a chopper were used to track down the cars, with officers cordoning off Woodroffe Ave and deploying spikes to stop the vehicles.
Baker was arrested at the scene alongside another nine children – aged 13 to 18 – who were also allegedly travelling in the cars.
The Seventeen Mile Rocks woman appeared in court via video-link from the watch-house, where she had been since her arrest.
The court was told Baker was on bail for unrelated charges at the time of the alleged offending.
Defence lawyer Sunil Dutt said Baker claimed she got into the vehicle after someone else inside recognised her while driving past, and she was not directly involved in the alleged robbery.
“She’s going to contest the charges … on that basis, I ask that she be granted bail,” Mr Dutt said.
He told the court that Baker was looking for full-time work while helping care for her seven siblings.
Baker was granted bail under strict conditions, including reporting to police twice a week and having no contact with her co-accused.
The matter will next be mentioned in Ipswich Magistrates Court on January 24.
Her co-accused are expected to appear in Southport Childrens Court next month.
Five cop cars, a chopper, two alleged stolen cars and 10 teen arrests
December 25, 2022: GOLD Coast police have arrested 10 teenagers – aged 13 to 18 – after deploying tyre deflation spikes to bring two alleged stolen cars to a halt.
Police blocked off Woodroffe Avenue in Main Beach just after 6pm on Christmas Eve with about five police cars and the police chopper descending on the suburb.
Police said in the statement to the Bulletin officers were searching for two alleged stolen vehicles at the time and used tyre deflation devices successfully to stop both vehicles.
They arrested 10 teenagers at 6.15pm and recovered an allegedly stolen Subaru Forrester and allegedly stolen Suzuki Swift.
From the Subaru, an 18-year-old Seventeen Miles Rocks woman was charged with one count of unlawful use of a motor vehicle (UUMV).
Four juveniles, a 13-year-old boy from Inala, a 13-year-old girl from Loganlea, a 14-year-old boy from Forest Lake and a 16-year-old boy from Inala were all charged with one count of child under 18 commit UUMV.
The 14-year-old Forest Lake boy and the 18-year-old Seventeen Mile Rocks woman were also charged with robbery.
The vehicle had allegedly been stolen from a Mount Ommaney address between December 22 and 24.
From the Suzuki Swift, a 13-year-old Ellen Grove boy and a 17-year-old Inala girl were charged with child under 18 commit robbery in company using personal violence, as well as UUMV, enter dwelling and commit and indictable offence, and receiving stolen property, the police statement said.
A 14-year-old Goodna boy and a 16-year-old Moorooka boy were charged with child under 18 UUMV, enter dwelling and commit and indictable offence and receiving stolen property.
A 16-year-old Inala boy was charged with the same three offences immediately above plus unlawful possession of suspected stolen property and possession of implements that were about to be used for unlawfully entering a place.
This vehicle was allegedly stolen overnight December 23-24 from a Robina address.
Some of the teens arrested were refused police bail and are due to appear in the Southport Childrens Court.
Some were released on strict bail undertakings to appear in the Southport Childrens Court in January.
Investigations are continuing.
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