'Shot-gun wielding fugitive' arrested after alleged seven-hour crime spree
A shot-gun wielding man, who reportedly threatened a Brisbane family, and stole three vehicles in seven hours, was on parole.
Jonny James Maguire was arrested by Queensland Police in the Lockyer Valley west of Brisbane on Friday, following a seven-hour dramatic crime spree.
Maguire was released from jail almost two months ago.
His spree began at around 2.30am, when he allegedly stole a Tip Top bread truck at a service station on Birkdale Road in Birkdale.
Police say Maguire pushed the 32-year-old male motorist out of the driver’s seat before driving off.
At 4:30pm the convicted felon allegedly dumped the bread truck in Warana Court, Boronia Heights.
Its clutch was burnt after it was driven so erratically.
Next, Maguire reportedly approached a Logan house armed with a sawn-off shot gun and threatened a sleeping family.
Shane and Kate Troyahn hid their five children in a bedroom as stole Maguire their 2012 silver Honda City and fled west.
The convicted felon headed to the Somerset area where he crashed again, this time into the fence of a house at Borallon, near Ipswich.
It's alleged Maguire threatened another home owner and stole their ute before he headed further west to Helidon.
He then abandoned the vehicle on train track before fleeing on foot.
Maguire then allegedly tried to get on a stolen motorbike before officers had to contend with a fire in a shed on the property.
He will face the Toowoomba Magistrates Court on Saturday on a string of charges, including discharging a weapon in a public place and four counts of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
The home residents were not physically injured but the bread truck driver sustained an arm injury and was transported to Redlands Hospital.
