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FLASHBACK: One of the four Graham House Ford Mondeos stolen during the break-in in May … one of them was re-stolen last week (Photo: Graham House)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Graham House manager
Linda O’Hare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

February 18, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second of two vehicles stolen from the Graham House Community Transport Service depot in Murgon on February 10 was located in Kingaroy on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Nissan X Trail was found at 8:30am in a paddock in the Kingaroy Industrial Estate, parked behind some storage containers.<\/p>\n

Graham House manager Linda O’Hare said the vehicle had smashed windows and the engine, radiator and electrical components had been exposed to the weather.<\/p>\n

The keys and a mobile phone that had been in the vehicle were missing.<\/p>\n

Linda told southburnett.com.au<\/strong> she believed the thieves had hoped to return to the vehicle to use it again at some stage.<\/p>\n

Officer-in-charge of Kingaroy Police, Senior Sergeant David Tierney, said police forensic officers had examined the vehicle.<\/p>\n

The first of the two vehicles stolen, a Ford Mondeo stationwagon, was found on February 11 near Cherbourg.<\/p>\n

“It didn’t have any panel damage but it did have three very flat tyres,” Linda said.<\/p>\n

“We don’t know yet if it has any mechanical damage.”<\/p>\n

Sadly, the Mondeo was one of the same vehicles which was stolen from Graham House and badly damaged in May last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is part of the small fleet that Graham House volunteers use to transport people to medical appointments.<\/p>\n

It was recovered on that occasion and repaired.<\/p>\n

On the latest occasion, the thieves scaled a high wire fence – which has two strands of barbed wire across the top – and smashed louvres in Graham House’s Macalister Street building.<\/p>\n

Once inside, they opened “every cupboard, every cabinet, every drawer” in the hunt for the car keys.<\/p>\n

They found the keys to five vehicles which were parked at the depot.<\/p>\n

Nothing else was stolen.<\/p>\n

They then used bolt cutters to cut chains and open the gates to drive the two vehicles away.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty devastating. I don’t know what more we can do,” Linda said. “We’re only keeping honest people out.”<\/p>\n

Linda said she believed the same thieves returned on Monday to remove the other three vehicles, but Graham House had taken precautions and had moved them.<\/p>\n

“They targeted the supermarket next door, instead,” she said. “They left their bolt cutters behind.”<\/p>\n