Road marks lead police to arrest

POLICE were able to find stolen televisions by following gouge marks left on the road by a car driven on its rim from the scene of a break-in, a court was told.

Officers allegedly found three flat screen televisions, golf clubs and power tools in the Springfield Lakes house which were stolen from another home in the area on Saturday morning.

Two men and a woman were detained and questioned and police later charged 20-year-old Justin Benjamin Kussrow with entering a premises and possessing tainted property.

Kussrow appeared in Ipswich Magistrates’ Court and successfully applied for bail.

Defence lawyer Erin Beer said her client, a labourer, strenuously denied any involvement in the crime and claimed he was just visiting a friend’s home when police arrived

“He was charged after police found what they say is stolen property at that house,” Ms Beer said.

“He was simply visiting friends.”

But prosecutor Sergeant Mark Muller said Kussrow was an unacceptable risk of committing more offences.

Sgt Muller said the car believed to have been used in the break-in was missing a tyre and was allegedly driven from the offence location back to the Springfield Lakes home on its rim – leaving the gouge mark on the road.

“It links it strongly back to him,” Sgt Muller said.

Kussrow was granted bail on the conditions he lives with his mother in Buccan near Loganholme, submits to an 8am to 6pm night curfew and reports to police three days a week. He will next appear in court on March 29.