A TEENAGE girl was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint, forced into a car boot and held overnight by a man before she managed to raise the alarm with police on the weekend.
A 69-year-old man, Raymond George Brownlowe, has been charged with a string of allegations after police were alerted that a 16-year-old girl had allegedly been taken at Martinsville on Friday afternoon.
Lake Macquarie police were told the girl had been threatened by a man, armed with a firearm, just before 4pm on August 23 on Martinsville Road.
The girl was allegedly forced into the boot of a sedan then driven to a house on Freemans Drive at Cooranbong and detained for the night.
Police said the girl was taken to a nearby church on Saturday, August 24, where she was able to alert emergency services at about 11am.
Brownlowe was arrested a short time later and taken to Toronto Police Station.
Police allege he had wielded a loaded gun in public while he was subject to a firearms prohibition order.
He was charged with taking a person and intending to commit a serious offences; possessing a loaded firearm in a public place; carrying a firearm in a way that was likely to injure a person; and two counts relating to being subject to a firearms prohibition order.
Brownlowe spent the weekend behind bars before fronting court at Toronto on Monday, where he made no application for bail and it was formally refused.
He will face Newcastle Local Court again on October 23.
