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ACT Policing is investigating multiple incidents believed to be linked including a home invasion where a 72-year-old woman was tied up, a robbery at a Dickson business, and a fatal collision on an exit ramp off Gungahlin Drive today.
About 4:15am this morning (Friday, 5 December 2025), a 72-year-old Conder woman disturbed two persons wearing masks who were inside her residence. They allegedly tied her up and forced her to provide bank login details, before fleeing the scene in her Mazda SUV. The Mazda was recovered by police this afternoon and has been seized for forensic examination.
Later this morning, police received reports of an armed robbery of a business on Wooley Street in Dickson. Witnesses reported that several offenders entered the store and threatened staff with firearms before stealing a sum of cash.
The group fled in a white Nissan Pathfinder with ACT registration YNW 86T (which was allegedly stolen from a Gordon residence about 5am today). It was later located on fire in Macquarie.
Police believe at least one person from the Dickson group entered a silver Audi sedan with ACT registration YSC 34D. The Audi was observed in Woden and Tuggeranong and was pursued multiple times with police terminating pursuits due to the erratic driving manner of the vehicle.
About 12.15pm, the Audi was observed leaving the Barton Highway and driving the wrong way up an exit ramp towards Gungahlin Drive. Soon after it collided head on with a small tip truck, with the tip truck ending up on its roof.
The driver of the Audi (a 24-year-old man) was extracted from the vehicle by ACT Fire & Rescue and transported to hospital, where he was declared deceased. The driver of the truck was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Two co-offenders from this morning’s incidents remain outstanding.
Police are urging anyone who witnessed the home invasion in Conder, robbery in Dickson, or has dash-cam footage of the Nissan or Audi, to come forward.
Anyone who can assist police should provide their contact details to Crime Stoppers via the Crime Stoppers ACT website, quoting 8236745.