A woman has been charged with five offences after allegedly threatening a rideshare driver with a knife and forcing them to drive her 40 kilometres.
Police said the woman, a 33-year-old from Sunshine Coast suburb Birtinya, entered the rideshare on Kingsford Smith Drive in Hamilton shortly after midday on December 17.
She then allegedly pulled a knife, forcing the driver to take her about 40 kilometres to Masters Avenue in Victoria Point.
The jetty on Coochiemudlo Island, a small Moreton Bay island where a woman was arrested on Wednesday.
Officers said the driver was not physically harmed.
After arriving in Victoria Point, the woman allegedly left the vehicle and boarded a ferry to Coochiemudlo Island – a roughly five-square-kilometre island one kilometre offshore from Victoria Point.
Police launched an investigation and located the 33-year-old about 6.15pm.
She was taken into custody on the island and charged with five offences, including two counts of obstructing police officers and three counts relating to threatening and unlawfully detaining the rideshare driver.
The woman appeared in Cleveland Magistrates Court on Thursday and was remanded in custody. She was expected back in court mid-February.
Coochiemudlo Island falls within the Redland City Council limits and has one major township, Coochie, and a population of just under 1000 people.
The passenger ferry departs about every half hour, taking 10 minutes to reach the Victoria Point jetty.
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