{"id":665279,"date":"2026-05-12T04:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665279\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:35:14","slug":"man-allegedly-holds-up-cash-transit-vehicle-with-a-gun-on-the-fraser-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665279\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly holds up cash transit vehicle with a gun on the Fraser Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police say they have arrested a man who allegedly stole a significant amount of money from a cash-in-transit vehicle while armed with a gun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers say the man threatened the armoured vehicle&#8217;s security officer on the Fraser Coast around 6:30am today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is believed a physical altercation unfolded between the pair, and the security officer fired a shot from their gun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Armored\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2dd3ee5f560169b9ccff4a61e48fcac6.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police say the man allegedly stole from an armoured vehicle outside the Eli Waters shopping centre on Monday morning.\u00a0 (ABC Wide Bay: Olivia Nunes-Malek)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">CCTV of the incident captured from a nearby shop shows a man driving away from the scene in a utility vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">No-one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man also allegedly stole cash from the Eli Waters shopping centre on Ibis Boulevard before driving away in another vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police forensics officer kneels down at the scene of an alleged armed robbery.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/31dac0405d75cac68c1b468700825c27.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The police forensics team collects evidence at the scene for further testing. (ABC Wide Bay: Olivia Nunes-Malek)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police say the vehicle was stopped nearby at Craignish shortly after, and the man was arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two crime scenes have been declared, and investigations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say they have arrested a man who allegedly stole a significant amount of money from a cash-in-transit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[321272,321270,64,63,321271,207684,44,321273],"class_list":["post-665279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alleged-armed-robbery","tag-armaguard","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-craignish","tag-fraser-coast","tag-news","tag-police-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665279","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=665279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}