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A YOUNG woman with a growing history of violence and driving offences has been refused bail after an Ipswich magistrate deemed her to be an unacceptable risk to the public.
In her latest charges, the teenager is alleged to have driven into a police car at Redbank.
Saphfire Angel Erihe-Schaeffer, 19, from Redbank, appeared in custody before Ipswich Magistrates Court on Tuesday on new charges including dangerous driving.
She appeared via video link from the police watch-house, and was visibly upset when bail was refused, saying that she was âtrying my hardest, pleaseâ.
Erihe-Schaeffer is charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle (with previous conviction), on Brisbane Road at Redbank on Thursday April 8; driving when disqualified; failing to comply with a police request to stop; and two charges of not stopping for red traffic lights in Redbank.
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An 18-year-old man will face court after allegedly stealing a car from a Warwick home and then fleeing across the region.
The Ford Ranger was taken from a Boronia Dr address between 7.30pm on Sunday and the early hours of Monday morning, with police sighting the vehicle as it was driving towards Redbank near Ipswich.
Warwick Police officer-in-charge Jamie Deacon said police deployed spikes to stop the 18-year-old, but he allegedly continued with one deflated tyre for a short distance before abandoning the car.
The 18-year-old was taken into custody a short while later.
The St George resident was charged with burglary, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, receiving tainted property, and driving while unlicensed.
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Lowood police have charge to men with drink and drug driving offences across the Easter weekend. At about 1.25am on April 3 police intercepted a vehicle on the Brisbane Valley Highway, Fernvale, for a random breath test.
A 56-year-old Robina man has been charged with one count of driving under influence of liquor.
He will appear in the Ipswich Magistrates court on April 29.
Police also charged a man after allegedly driving under the influence of a drug.
Around 3.52pm on April 3, police intercepted a vehicle on Main Street Lowood for the propose of a roadside drug test.
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