Scott Whitmore faces multiple charges at the Wonthaggi Magistrates’ Court

Police were forced to wrestle a violent man — who went on a crime spree across Victoria — for six minutes before they could finally arrest him.

Scott Whitmore faced a raft of charges at the Wonthaggi Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. Picture: Jack Colantuono

An enraged man who went on a crime spree across the state resisted police officers who had to wrestle him for six minutes before they could finally arrest him.

Scott Whitmore appeared at the Wonthaggi Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to a raft of charges including failing to answer bail, destroying or damaging property, resisting a police officer and other offences.

The court heard Whitmore was at a victim’s Wonthaggi home when they got into an argument, swiped the victim’s belongings off a coffee table and threw a bowl of spaghetti against the wall in March last year.

As Whitmore was leaving he knocked the front door off its hinges and was later arrested.

Later that year, he went to the Comfort Inn in Dandenong and was verbally abusive to staff, refusing to leave when asked.

When police arrived, they tried to arrest Whitmore but he resisted them and was pinned to a wall and the ground.

Officers had no choice but to wrestle Whitmore and were able to arrest him after six minutes.

  It was revealed there was an outstanding warrant for Whitemore’s arrest.

When Whitmore was taken to the Dandenong police station, he kicked the pod of a police vehicle several times and continued to be abusive.

On another occasion, Whitmore knocked on the door of a Seaford home but was refused to be let inside.

He then broke the front window with a cabinet draw and fled the scene.

The court also heard Whitmore caused trouble at the Ozanam House in Melbourne in October, where police tried to arrest him but he again resisted them, telling officers he would “do them for assault”.

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After he was released from the Melbourne west police station, Whitmore went to the watchouse, yelled at an officer behind the counter and struck the flex glass screen with his fist, causing the supporting bracket to dislodge.

In November, Whitmore went to a victim’s home near Ballarat and started yelling.

Frightened, the victim locked herself in the bathroom and Whitmore damaged the security screen of the property.

The victim said it sounded as if Whitmore “pulled the door off the tracks” and he also damaged a pot plant.

Whitmore also verbally abused a BWS employee in Melbourne and smacked boxes around him, making the worker feel unsafe and humiliated.

He also climbed through a kitchen window of a victim’s Leongatha home who ran to their neighbour’s house in fear.

The court heard Whitmore had been in custody since January 1 this year, had a brain injury and lost his daughter in a crash in the 1990s.

Magistrate Stephen Lee said Whitmore’s interactions with police were almost all hostile.

Mr Lee adjourned the matter to hear victim impact statements and will sentence Whitmore in April, who was remanded until then.