Balanced News: Man ‘held up tugboat with gun before crashing into police vessel’

A man in Kwinana Beach allegedly held up a tugboat with a gun before crashing into a police vessel. He then fled the scene but was later arrested after a search by Water Police, Mandurah Detectives, and Air Wing officers. The man was charged with unlawful act or omission with intent to harm and appeared in Rockingham Magistrates Court, where he was granted bail to reappear in December. The firearm mentioned in the initial reports has not been recovered, and police divers are conducting searches in the Kwinana area and its surroundings. Thankfully, no one was injured in the incident.