Police have charged a boy after a car containing a dog was stolen from a Worongary shopping centre yesterday afternoon, 18 February.
Around 4pm, a 48-year-old man attended a shopping complex on Mudgeeraba Road in a 2014 black Mercedez-Benz CLA45, with his 12-year-old dachshund in the vehicle.
It will be alleged that the man exited his vehicle and was standing nearby when a boy entered the unlocked Mercedes and fled in it.
The man was not threatened or physically injured during the theft.
Police tracked the vehicle down to Palm Beach, where it collided with a black Dodge Ram, being driven by the 48-year-old owner, on Melaleuca Street around 5.40pm.
No one was injured in the crash.
Police continued to track the stolen Mercedes around the Gold Coast before a Tyre Deflation Device (TDD) was successfully deployed on the Gold Coast Highway at Palm Beach around 8pm.
The damaged Mercedes continued to travel at low-speed along the Gold Coast Highway before it eventually came to a stop outside the Palm Beach police station just after 11pm, where police arrested a 17-year-old boy.
A 17-year-old Tugun boy has now been charged with two counts of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and one count each of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and enter premises.
He is schedule to appear at the Southport Childrens Court today, 19 February.
Investigations indicate that the 17-year-old boy abandoned the stolen dog at a Nerang address around 6.50pm, where residents collected the dog and took it to a vet.
It has since been reunited with its owner, safe and well.
Please see the below link to access vision relating to the arrest of the 17-year-old boy at Palm Beach:
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