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<\/p>\nPolice have charged four men after a series of alleged drive-by attacks using handmade slingshots on members of the public across Brisbane’s western suburbs.<\/p>\n
It is alleged that the group used the slingshots to fire metal objects at people from a vehicle on multiple nights between May 27 and May 31.<\/p>\n
Police said a 22-year-old woman was struck on the forehead and a 36-year-old woman was struck on the hand in separate attacks in Paddington and Toowong on May 27.<\/p>\n
On the evening of May 31, a 53-year-old man was allegedly struck in the back, and a 64-year-old woman was struck in the jaw in Toowong and St Lucia.<\/p>\n
Police intercepted a Hyundai i30 at Chapel Hill just after 11pm on the same night and allegedly found two handmade slingshots, two pocket-shot style devices and a set of knuckle dusters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Two men were detained at the scene.<\/p>\n
After a search at two addresses in Redbank Plains and Forest Lake, police allegedly located property related to the assaults as well as a quantity of cannabis and drug utensils.<\/p>\n
Three 19-year-old men and one 20-year-old man have been charged with a range of offences, including assault occasioning bodily harm, serious assault of a person over 60, common assault and discharging a weapon in a public place.<\/p>\n
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Police executed search warrants at two addresses in Redbank Plains and Chapel Hill. (Supplied: Queensland Police)<\/p>\n
A 19-year-old Redbank Plains man was remanded in custody, while the three other men were granted bail.<\/p>\n
All four will face the Brisbane Magistrates Court later this month.<\/p>\n
Investigations into the incidents are ongoing, and police have appealed to anyone who may have been struck by an object thrown from a vehicle in the Paddington, Toowong, St Lucia, or Chapel Hill areas to get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged four men after a series of alleged drive-by attacks using handmade slingshots on members of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45387,24278,204354,88375,651,352748,43,12979,44,1158,94,701,352746,352747,41,39,42,40,506],"class_list":["post-728414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arrest","tag-assault","tag-assaults","tag-attacks","tag-brisbane","tag-drive-by","tag-headlines","tag-injuries","tag-news","tag-police","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-slingshot","tag-slingshots","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-western-suburbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728414","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=728414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}