Investigators are expecting to lay charges after a Gold Coast family woke to three strangers allegedly threatening them with a gun before taking off in their luxury car, sparking a major police chase.
Seyed Akbar Hosseini was left with bloodied hands as he fought off one intruder at 6am today, before three strangers allegedly returned to his home also armed with a knife and what he described as a “big gun”.
Rocks were then hurled through the front window, a Porsche smashed and a garage door broken as the Maserati was taken.
“They were just in panic, crying, so yeah I just tried to calm them down,” friend Mehrzad Mosaleheh told 9News.
Police chased the allegedly stolen $70,000 Maserati 50 kilometres from Helensvale to Browns Plain in Logan.
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The alleged thieves posted videos on social media from inside, as the car clocked 160km/h.
The car was finally brought to a stop by road spikes after the driver hit a patrol car, then a tree.
A man, 27, and a woman, 18, were taken into custody and police said a second man was on the run.
A white Mercedes seen on CCTV as the sports car sped away is also of interest to police.
