Police arrest two over break in at Mary MacKillop Catholic College, Highfields

Police raided a Highfields home on Tuesday and recovered a large amount of gear that was allegedly stolen from a local school a day earlier.

A teenage boy and a woman have been held in police custody overnight after they were found in possession of a large amount of gardening gear allegedly stolen from Mary MacKillop Catholic College.

Toowoomba Criminal Investigation Branch Officer-in-Charge Senior Sergeant Paul McCusker said police will allege the pair cut the lock on a gate and gained access to a gardening shed at the school some time late Monday evening or early Tuesday morning.

“A Gator four-wheeler and a large quantity of gardening equipment was (allegedly) stolen,” he said.

On Tuesday, Highfields Police along with officers from the Toowoomba Property Crime Team raided a home on Bowtell St and recovered all the stolen property.

They also arrested a 23-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy.

Both were held in custody and on Wednesday were charged with entering a premises and committing an indictable offence, possessing tainted property, possessing drug utensils and breaching bail. They will face the Toowoomba Magistrates Court and Toowoomba Childrens Court on Wednesday.