Detectives from the Centenary Crime Group and Acacia Ridge Criminal Investigation Branch have charged two people with more than 50 offences after police allegedly located stolen property worth approximately $70,000 yesterday.
Detectives investigating recent break-ins involving the alleged theft of electrical cabling and other metals, as well as construction and industrial equipment, executed a search warrant at Katandra Crescent, Bellbird Park yesterday morning.
Police will allege the search uncovered approximately $70,000 worth of stolen property, including mobile phones valued at around $40,000.
Police also seized a homemade firearm and ammunition, drug items, a bathtub, a sink, industrial welders, industrial tools and a significant industrial copper cabling.
Some of the cabling has been linked to an alleged theft that occurred in Coopers Plains in the early hours of May 31.
The phones were allegedly stolen when a flatbed truck was reversed into an Ipswich Road, Oxley department store at around 10.20pm on Wednesday, June 5.
The truck
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