Detectives have charged a teenage boy after he allegedly broke into a Palm Beach residence early this morning.
It will be alleged around 1.30am a woman was woken by noise in her Tallebudgera Drive unit. She saw light from a torch in her kitchen and confronted a teenage boy searching the kitchen. The boy threatened the woman with a knife and a struggle ensured before the boy fled the unit.
The 32-year-old woman received three small cuts to her fingers and hand.
Police located the teenage boy on Tallebudgera Drive a short time later.
A 16-year-old Woodridge boy has been charged with one count each of wounding, break and enter, stealing, possession of a knife in a public place and wilful damage. He will appear in the Southport Children's Court this afternoon.
