A man is assisting police with inquiries following two attempted robbery offences in Deception Bay yesterday.
It will be alleged at 6.15am on Sunday, a 32-year-old man entered the back door of a business on Bailey Road and threatened a male staff member with a firearm demanding keys to a vehicle. The staff member did not have access to a vehicle. The man has then attended a neighbouring shop and again demanded keys to a vehicle. An altercation has occurred with a staff member receiving a punch to the head however again the man was unsuccessful in obtaining a vehicle and fled the scene.
Around 9.45pm police received information the same man was trying to gain entry to an ATM in Bailey Road at Deception Bay.
At 1.13am on Monday, a Hyundai Santa Fe rammed the front of a businesses in Oxley Avenue at Margate. Entry was not gained and Polair commenced tracking the vehicle as it headed south on the Houghton Highway.
Polair tracked the vehicle on the Gateway Motorway, Logan Motorway then onto the Cunningham Highway. The car stopped at a service station at Aratula and police arrested the man.
A 32-year-old Deception Bay man was transported to the Princess Alexandra Hospital where he remains under police guard after suffering a medical episode.
Investigations are continuing.
