Qld burglars take boy, 9, along for ride

Three burglars allegedly took a nine-year-old boy with them when they went to rob a house in a Brisbane suburb before fleeing police at high speed.

It's alleged a woman and the child stayed in a ute while two men burgled a Drewvale property on Friday afternoon. Witnesses called police and when officers attempted to intercept them, the woman fled from the ute with the men then speeding off in it.

The woman then told officers the vehicle had just been stolen from her with the boy still inside. PolAir was called in and spotted the ute being driven dangerously through Mount Gravatt, running numerous red lights and narrowly missing other cars.

The vehicle allegedly travelled at high speed through the south Brisbane and Logan districts, at one stage crossing through a service station car park and just missing three children who were crossing the road.

The driver eventually lost control and crashed into a power pole in Carina Heights. Two men allegedly fled from the vehicle but were quickly arrested by police. The boy was found unhurt in the ute.

A 26-year-old Mount Gravatt East man and a 23-year-old Regents Park man have been charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle, deprivation of liberty, burglary and two counts of fail to stop vehicle. A 36-year-old Boronia Heights woman has been charged with burglary.

All three are due to appear in Richlands Magistrates Court on April 8.