Overview
- Officers say three males armed with machetes broke a glass panel to enter a Pound Road home about 3:30am.
- The 75-year-old occupant was punched and kicked before his Holden Statesman was taken from the property.
- Police located the stolen car in nearby Officer within about 30 minutes and arrested boys aged 13, 15 and 16, recovering two knives.
- The man was treated for minor injuries at the scene, and a 69-year-old woman in the home was uninjured.
- The teenagers remain in custody for interviews by a specialist car theft and burglary taskforce, with expected charges to include aggravated home invasion, motor vehicle theft, weapons and assault offences, and police urged residents to secure doors and windows as part of ongoing overnight operations.