Police have taken a 25-year-old man into custody after a series of alleged violent car thefts in the Wide Bay area this morning.
It will be alleged around 6.25am a man was forced out of his Holden Colorado ute on Watson Street in Hervey Bay by a man armed with a knife.
The man allegedly drove the vehicle to Tinana in Maryborough where he discarded the ute just after 7.30am.
He then broke into a home on Three Mile Road West just before 8am where he demanded a vehicle belonging to a woman inside the residence.
The owner of the car, a woman aged in her 30s, refused to comply and sustained a stab wound to her hand during a struggle with the man.
The man produced a firearm and discharged a number of shots before fleeing the scene.
It is further alleged the man then went into another home on River Road and demanded a
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