Police have charged a 30-year-old man following investigations into a string of offences including car thefts, traffic crashes and property crime spanning from Cairns to Brisbane in the past two weeks.
It will be alleged between December 12 and 22, the Edmonton man stole multiple vehicles and petrol and was involved in four traffic crashes in Cairns, Brisbane, Wide Bay, Gladstone and Rockhampton.
It will be further alleged, on December 21, one of the stolen vehicles was involved in a serious traffic crash with a motorcycle on Gin Gin Road in Bundaberg. The driver fled the scene. The 65-year-old male motorcycle rider was trasnported to Bundaberg Base Hospital with life threatening head injuries and multiple broken ribs and a punctured lung.
Police arrested the man on December 22 after he allegedly broke into a house and attempted to steal a vehicle at a property at Canoona, north of Rockhampton.
The man has been charged
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