Yorketown farmer bashed and robbed of $1M in cash

A retired Yorketown farmer has been tied up by a gang of thieves who assaulted him before fleeing with his cache of guns and $1 million in cash. The suspects' run from the law took them across the border to New South Wales but was short-lived.

For more, Lauren Rose reports.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
On a York peninsular property the makings of a Hollywood movie.
A seventy four year old retired farmer tied up in
the middle of the night by a gang of armed intruders.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
So he had to give Javan Dan and then he
reported to Alice. So he was likely that any told you.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
That the thieves made off with a number of the
grandfather's guns, his impressive coin collection and a million dollars cash.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
You just had to believe that some lotti could happen
in a.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Little ow York ten But their getaway was their downfall.
The highest happened at one am Monday morning. Less than
eight hours later, forty nine year old career criminals Scott
Bahaja was arrested near Broken Hill. Fourteen hours later, his
alleged co accused, thirty five year old Matthew Ryan, was
taken into custody on the outskirts of Coba. Both men

(00:56):
are from New South Wales. It may be some time
before South Australia police can extradite the pair back and
we hear why they were allegedly here in the first place.
For now, locals can only speculate.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
They had a very good collection of.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Coins and things, so it must be in the nose
or I think. I don't know. I got no idea,
but it's a bit strange, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
And in another blow to the victim, it will likely
take a long time to get his stolen property back.
Lauren Rose, seven News