22 charges: Wanted man arrested after fleeing Avenell Heights crash

Police allege a 26-year-old Bundaberg man was involved in two crashes before being arrested on a string of charges including evading police and possession of drugs and a firearm.

Bundaberg police were called to a crash near Centennial Circuit on Tuesday morning.

A 26-year-old Coonarr man is facing a raft of charges following his arrest after allegedly fleeing the scene of a crash at Bundaberg earlier this week.

A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said there was a warrant for the man’s arrest at the time of the incident at Avenell Heights on Tuesday morning with police already looking for him in relation to a string of other alleged offences.

Following the incident at Avenell Heights it is believed he allegedly stole another car a short time later before being involved in a second crash from which he also fled.

Police found a firearm and drugs in one of the cars he is alleged to have been driving.

The man is facing 22 charges including multiple counts of evading police, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, stealing, unlawful use of a motor vehicle and driving unlicensed as well as one count each of failing to remain at the scene of an accident and rendering assistance, failing to dispose of a needle, possessing dangerous drugs, unlawful possession of a weapon, wilful damage and possession of property suspected to be from the commission of an offence.

He was expected to face Bundaberg Magistrates Court this week.

Originally published as 22 charges: Wanted man arrested after fleeing Avenell Heights crash