TWO men and a woman have been jailed in the Local Court this week after they were arrested following a high speed police pursuit through Frederickton.
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About 11.30pm on Monday night, police travelling north in an unmarked car through Macksville passed a blue Audi sedan stolen from a home in Queensland a week earlier.
The police vehicle turned and followed the vehicle south to Bellimbopinni, where police activated their lights and siren.
The driver of the Audi failed to stop and accelerated away from police, travelling at an estimated speed of 140km/h through an 80km/h zone.
Just before the vehicle entered Frederickton police deployed road spikes causing all four tyres on the Audi to deflate.
The spikes slowed the vehicle but it continued to drive at high speed along Great North Rd.
It turned onto Collombatti Rd then back onto the highway.
As police pursued the vehicle east they noticed a passenger in the rear of the Audi fiddling with an unknown object.
He placed a black coloured sun-shade against the rear window of the vehicle to prevent police from seeing what was happening inside the car.
The driver of the Audi attempted a tight left-hand turn into Lawson St and the vehicle travelled a further 200m before colliding with the rear of a parked Daihatsu 4WD.
Armed police surrounded the car and the three occupants surrendered.
On the rear middle seat of the vehicle police found a black Adidas backpack containing two loaded .22 sawn off shotguns and more than 200 rounds of ammunition.
They later found an Apple iPhone containing images of the firearms taken two days earlier.
In the Kempsey Local Court on Tuesday Joseph Sweeney, 19, of Lawnton in Queensland was sentenced to a minimum 12 months jail for offences including taking and driving a vehicle, refusing to stop during a police pursuit, possessing an unauthorised firearm and ammunition and being in possession of stolen property.
Sweeney is wanted on an outstanding warrant “for apprehension to return to prison”.
He is not eligible for release until May 5, 2013, and can not drive again for three years.
Dylan Alexanderson, 20, of Geebung, Queensland, who was travelling as a passenger in the rear of the stolen Audi, was jailed for a minimum of six months for knowingly being carried in a stolen vehicle.
He is not eligible for release until November 6. Alexanderson is wanted on four outstanding warrants by Queensland police.
Haley Bucholz, 28, of Ferny Hills, Queensland, was travelling as a passenger in the Audi and was jailed for a minimum of five months for knowingly being carried in a stolen vehicle.
She is eligible for release on October 6.
