MELBOURNE, VIC. — Cardinia Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a 16-year-old teenager from the greater Cardinia area following a pursuit across several Melbourne suburbs.
The teenage boy has been charged with several offences, including dangerous driving whilst being pursued by police, theft of a motor vehicle and possessing a controlled weapon, among several other offences.
The charges follow a protracted incident overnight after a vehicle was sighted by a Dog Squad unit in Sutherland Road, Dandenong with alleged stolen plates just after 12.30am.
Police responded and called in the Air Wing (POLAIR) as the vehicle travelled from Noble Park through several suburbs along Nepean Highway towards the city.
The Mitsubishi Lancer was successfully stop sticked by a Prahran unit before the vehicle entered the Burnley Tunnel.
The vehicle is alleged to have been travelling erratically, and at times – contraflow to traffic – and through multiple red traffic lights.
Police pursued the vehicle along the Monash Freeway before it came to a stop on McGregor Road in Pakenham with three of the four tyres deflated and on rims.
The Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) moved in and arrested the boy about 3.50am.
The teenager appeared before a children’s court today.
The vehicle is alleged to have been stolen from outside a gym in Moorabbin on September 28.
