A man has been charged after allegedly smashing several glass doors and a windscreen at a police station on the far north coast overnight.
About 1.40am (Friday 11 February 2022), a man was walking past Tweed Heads Police Station on Wharf Street, when he allegedly picked up a rock and threw it at a marked police vehicle parked outside the police station, smashing both the front and rear windscreens.
It is further alleged the man then threw the rock at the station entrance, smashing several glass doors.
Officers exited the station and approached the man before he fled south along Wharf Street.
A foot pursuit commenced before he was arrested on nearby Enid Street.
The 32-year-old was taken to Tweed Heads Police Station and charged with two counts of destroy or damage property and one count of resist police officer in execution of duty.
He was refused bail to appear at Tweed Heads Local Court later today (Friday 11 February 2022).
