March 24, 2025
Police have charged a 25-year-old Cherbourg man following an alleged incident in Townsville on Saturday afternoon.
Police will allege that about 2:30pm, the man entered a vehicle while another man was making a delivery.
Police allege the vehicle was then driven off – with the other man still inside the vehicle – before crashing into a pole.
The man is alleged to have then assaulted the 24-year-old victim, who suffered facial injuries and received treatment at Townsville Hospital.
A member of the public intervened, and the man fled the scene in a vehicle but was located by police a short time later.
The Cherbourg man has been charged with unlawful use of a motor vehicle (use or threaten violence), unlawful entry of a vehicle for committing an indictable offence, and unlicensed driving.
He was due to appear in the Townsville Magistrates Court on Monday.
