Michael Brohan, 32, charged with calling in bomb hoax on Bendigo Police Station

A Bendigo man allegedly called in a bomb hoax on a police station before a drunken rampage where he allegedly damaged a cop shop.

Bendigo Police Station. Picture: Foreground Architecture.

A Bendigo man allegedly called in a bomb hoax on a police station before allegedly going on a drunken rampage.

Michael Brohan, 32, was refused bail in Bendigo Magistrates’ Court on Friday after being charged with a raft of offences related to alleged unhinged antics between May and October, 2023.

Brohan made his bail bid claiming he didn’t have suitable access to medication for a litany of mental health issues while remanded in custody.

Michael Brohan allegedly called in a bomb threat on Bendigo police station. Picture: Liam Beatty

However, police opposed the bail application, alleging Brohan had a history of “violent outbursts” and “fixations on people and organisations” that made him an unacceptable risk to the community.

The court heard Brohan made more than 25 “aggressive and harassing” phone calls to Bendigo police station October 8, accusing them of falsifying evidence against him, culminating in Brohan calling in a bomb hoax.

The phone calls came after police charged Brohan with what Magistrate Russell Kelly described as “serious” stalking offences against a former partner.

The court heard Brohan had pleaded guilty to stalking and harassing his former partner, even placing a tracking device in her car and monitoring her movements.

However, Brohan told the court he intended to change his his guilty plea and contest the charges.

Bendigo Police Station. Picture: Foreground Architecture.

Brohan told Mr Kelly he believed police couldn’t prove that he had used tracking devices on his ex-partner’s car, because he still had two tracking devices in his possession.

Mr Kelly told the court Brohan had an acquired brain injury from a car crash in March, which may have been the trigger for the alleged stalking offences and escalating criminal behavior that resulted in his arrest and remand.

Following the alleged threatening phone calls and bomb hoax to Bendigo Police, Brohan allegedly went on a drunken rampage on October 30.

Police alleged in court that Brohan drove past a marked police car in his mum’s blue Ford Territory at Eaglehawk, north of Bendigo, “flipping the bird” at the officer driving.

Police allege Brohan went on a drunken rampage in Eaglehawk. Picture: Zizi Averill

In an “extraordinary display” of why Brohan should not be granted bail, the prosecutor said, the accused allegedly pulled up at the Eaglehawk police station, got out and started kicking the door while screaming that the police were “pigs and c--ts”.

Police allege Brohan then vandalized the police station, ripping off a window awning, damaging the letter box, security door and the front fence.

After he was arrested, Brohan returned a blood alcohol level of 0.116

Brohan said that he had no recollection of damaging the police station and said it might have been “epilepsy”.

Mr Kelly found Brohan to be an “unacceptable risk to the community” and refused his bail.