DELACOMBE, VIC. — Detectives from the Ballarat Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) have charged a man following a hit-and-run collision in Delacombe earlier this year.
Detectives allege that three offenders, a man and two women, attended a tow yard on Elizabeth Street around 9.20pm where a recovered stolen Ford Ranger was being stored on Tuesday, April 28.
The man allegedly tried to unlock the Ford but was spooked by two staff members, and the trio fled the premises empty-handed.
The staff members followed the women onto Stone Park Drive, when a cream-colored Skoda bearing no registration plates drove past and allegedly struck one of the staff members.
The staff member, a 23-year-old man, was knocked to the ground but luckily escaped serious injury.
On Monday, detectives arrested a 23-year-old man at a property in Ballan.
The Wendouree man was interviewed in relation to the hit-and-run and a series of alleged incidents spanning over the past four months.
He was charged with several offences, including reckless conduct endangering life, reckless conduct endangering serious injury, several driving offences, as well as trafficking GHB, cannabis, methamphetamine, and five counts of committing an indictable offence whilst on bail.
He faced the Ballarat Magistrates’ Court yesterday, where he was further remanded until October 12.
