AUSTRALIAN Federal Police officers have arrested the third and final suspect involved in a terrifying Bywong home invasion in September.
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Police arrested Joe Daniel Rose, 23, of Canberra last Thursday, October 2. He was charged with aggravated break and enter, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and aggravated break and enter.
Rose was extradited to Queanbeyan and refused bail. He will reappear at Queanbeyan Local Court on November 7.
Police allege on the morning of Sunday, September 14, Rose along with Corey Adam Brown and Kristiane Pang, went to the Bywong property with the intention of stealing firearms and ammunition.
Rose, armed with a hammer, side cutters and serrated knife, threatened the elderly homeowners - a 76-year-old man and his 74-year-old wife - and demanded they give him the key to their gun safe.
Rose allegedly knocked the man unconscious during the confrontation and also made threats to the couple including that he would cut off their heads, according to court documents.
Rose successfully made off with a .22 rifle and shotgun, ammunition and gun accessories from the property.
All firearms from the incident have since been recovered.
One of the firearms was discovered following a four-hour seige between three occupants of a Spence residence and the police on Friday, October 3.
Two men and one woman were arrested following the incident.
In September, officers searched the Casey home of co-accused Daniel Grech.
They located a rifle, ammunition and accessories as well as the barrel of shotgun and the butt of a rifle that had been sawn from a firearm.
They arrested Grech, Pang, who was present during the search, and later Brown.
Brown and Rose will reappear at Queanbeyan Local Court on November 7.
