Three teenagers have been charged following a Qld-NSW cross-border pursuit between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads.
About 1.30pm on Sunday, 29 June, officers attached to Tweed-Byron Police District were notified by Queensland Police Service an orange ute allegedly stolen from a Queensland address was travelling south toward NSW on the M1 motorway.
Queensland PolAir monitored the vehicle before NSW police officers from Traffic and Highway Patrol successfully deployed road spikes, deflating the tyres of the ute.
Police commenced a pursuit, before the vehicle stopped at a service station nearby.
The occupants of the vehicle – two boys aged 14, and a 15-year-old girl – were arrested and taken to Tweed Heads Police Station.
Police located a phone in the vehicle which was seized for forensic examination.
The 14-year-old driver was charged with police pursuit – not stop – drive dangerously, drive conveyance taken without consent of owner, and receive property stolen outside of NSW greater than $15,000.
The other 14-year-old boy and the 15-year-old girl were both charged with be carried in conveyance taken without consent of owner, and receive property stolen outside of NSW greater than $15,000.
All three were refused bail to appear before a children’s court on Monday, 30 June.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
