Police cut holiday short
Police arrested a man and woman after locating them in an allegedly stolen caravan in Pakenham last Tuesday. They also located and seized a Toyota Landcruiser, allegedly stolen from Warragul on Thursday, August 15, as well as multiple cloned...
Police arrested a man and woman after locating them in an allegedly stolen caravan in Pakenham last Tuesday.
They also located and seized a Toyota Landcruiser, allegedly stolen from Warragul on Thursday, August 15, as well as multiple cloned registration plates, stolen identity documents and a quantity of methamphetamine.
Police had been searching for a man after he allegedly evaded police in Seaford before crashing into a police vehicle door on Wednesday, August 14. A female police officer inside the vehicle sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators attended a caravan park on Racecourse Rd and located the man inside a caravan at about 9.20am. The caravan was allegedly stolen from an address in Berwick on Thursday, August 15.
A 27-year-old Croydon man was charged with theft of a motor vehicle, theft, aggravated reckless exposure of a police officer to risk by driving, assaulting a police officer, reckless conduct causing serious injury, damage to emergency service vehicle by reckless driving, recklessly causing serious injury, driving whilst disqualified, possessing drug of dependence, possessing house breaking instrument and possessing proceeds of crime.
He was remanded and appeared at Frankston Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
The woman, a 19-year-old Scoresby woman, was released pending further investigations.