Armed robbery and dangerous driving charges, Palm Cove, Cairns, Edmonton

Cairns police have charged a man with armed robbery and dangerous driving after a 70-year-old man allegedly had his car stolen at Palm Cove this morning.

Police will allege at around 7.45am the 70-year-old was confronted by an armed man in an Amphora Street car park, with the man fleeing in the victim’s 4WD.

Over the next several hours the vehicle was sighted by police and members of the public in various locations in and around Cairns allegedly at times disobeying traffic signals, on the wrong side of the road and on the footpath.

Around midday police successfully deployed a tyre deflation device in Castlereagh Street, Edmonton with the vehicle driving out of the street and onto the Bruce Highway, where it slowed down a short time…