Man confuses real life with GTA:SA

An assertive man.....

POLICE believe the same man to be responsible for a string of carjackings and robberies across Brisbane's southside.

Police said the offences began at 3.15pm (AEST) yesterday when the man stole a Mazda utility from a driveway in Fifth Avenue, North Marsden.

The thief threatened the ute's owner with a knife as he drove away, dumping the car in Marsden bushland a short time later.

Just before 4pm, the man then used the knife to steal a Honda sedan from four men at a real estate business on Trinity Way, Drewvale.

Not long after its theft the car was believed to have been driven into the rear fence of a Sunnybank home, before being taken to a nearby garage which was robbed at knifepoint.

Pursuit abandoned

Police tried to intercept the Honda nearby but said they had to abandon the pursuit when the man began driving the car on the wrong side of the road.

At about 4.30pm police received a report of a man using a knife to steal a Holden Barina from a woman in Blakeney Street, Highgate Hill.

He man abandoned the vehicle after crashing it into road maintenance equipment at the intersection of Vulture and Stanley Streets.

At about 5pm the man apparently began assaulting people in the carpark of the Mater Hospital, trying to obtain money.

He was chased from the carpark, but not before stealing a briefcase and the keys to a car from two elderly women.

Finally, at about 5.20pm police were called to the Rocklea Hotel bottleshop where a man had left a car with its engine running.

Enquiries revealed the car have been stolen earlier from a smash repair business in East Brisbane.

Police are investigating the rampage.