Police are investigating reports a German tourist was robbed at gunpoint at a highway rest stop in Far North Queensland.<\/p>\n
It is alleged three people confronted the 18-year-old man at a rest stop on the Bruce Highway, at Cardwell, late yesterday.<\/p>\n
Police said he was threatened and robbed at gunpoint, with the offenders stealing his vehicle.<\/p>\n
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The alleged incident happened at Cardwell late on Saturday. (ABC News: Baz Ruddick)<\/p>\n
The car was later located near Townsville and the occupants charged with two counts each of armed robbery while in company.<\/p>\n
A 26-year-old man, a 27-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy are due to face court in Townsville on Monday.<\/p>\n
Incident shocks fishing village<\/p>\n
Cardwell is a quiet fishing community with about 1,500 residents, located halfway between Townsville and Cairns, on the Bruce Highway.<\/p>\n
Cassowary Coast Mayor Teresa Millwood said the allegations were shocking.<\/p>\n
“It’s really upsetting that somebody would come to our quiet community and do such a terrible act,” she said.<\/p>\n
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Tourists often visit Cardwell for its proximity to Hinchinbrook Island. (Supplied: The Great Green Way)<\/p>\n
“To have that done to anybody is a disgrace, let alone a backpacker that will go away from our beautiful community with a terrible memory.<\/p>\n
“I just have no words really.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating reports a German tourist was robbed at gunpoint at a highway rest stop in Far…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24909,24907,72,24906,24908,24910,43,44,41,39,42,40,6649],"class_list":["post-25474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-backpacker-highway-robbery","tag-bruce-highway","tag-cairns","tag-cardwell","tag-cardwell-fishing","tag-far-north-queensland-crime","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-townsville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}