- Published:
- Monday 5 January 2026 at 1:03 pm
Mornington Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following a ramming in Mornington last month.
Police were called to reports of a suspicious loiter at a unit complex on Fleet Street on Friday 12 December about 7.40pm.
Officers attended and located an allegedly stolen black Toyota Land Cruiser utility in the driveway of the property.
It is alleged the utility rammed the parked police vehicle multiple times before it became wedged in the property’s driveway.
The driver allegedly exited the vehicle and fled north bound on Fleet Street.
During the incident, the two male senior constables retreated to take cover away from the vehicle, both sustaining minor injuries that required medical treatment the following day.
The police vehicle and the property sustained significant damage.
The offender was arrested after police received a report of a man passed out in a suspicious vehicle in Hallam on 4 January.
The man woke up and allegedly attempted to evade police, mounting a curb and crashing into a bin.
The man exited the vehicle from the passenger door and ran before he allegedly attempted to carjack a passing vehicle unsuccessfully and ran into bushland.
Police, with assistance from the Dog Squad, tracked the man and located him hiding in the bush.
He was taken into custody.
The 35-year-old man has since been charged with an array of offences including:
- Robbery
- Theft of motor vehicle x4
- Burglary x8
- Attempted burglary x5
- Attempted theft of motor vehicle
- Theft from motor vehicle
- Assault police (indictable) x2
- Reckless conduct causing serious injury x2
- Reckless conduct endangering life x2
- Drive in a manner dangerous x1
- Damage emergency vehicle x1
- Criminal damage x3
- Unlicenced driving x1
- Fail to appear on bail x1
He will appear before Melbourne Magistrates’ Court today.
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