Mornington druggie’s Peninsula police pursuit ends in prison
A Mornington man had already done time for a wild cop chase, so you’d think he know better than to get back on the glass barbie and give it another crack.
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A drugged-up driver off his head on ice who led police on a manic midnight chase through Peninsula suburbs has been jailed.
Corey Young was on bail for assaulting his mum when he sped from cops, nearly collecting motorists head-on as he raced through Rye, Rosebud and Capel Sound at double the speed limit.
The Mornington 29-year-old pleaded guilty to a raft of charges including reckless conduct endangering serious injury and assault at the online Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
The court heard in September last year he went to his mother’s house, which he was forbidden from attending, to pick up some car wheels.
While there he got into an argument and pushed her before police came and arrested him.
He was on bail for that when he led officers on a pursuit which began just after midnight on December 8 when officers saw, and heard, his Holden Commodore speeding at 120km/h along Point Nepean Rd in Rye.
As they tried to pull him over he raced off, repeatedly swerving onto the wrong side of the road before trying to pull into a driveway in Capel Sound.
He hit a gutter and then collided with a parked car before reversing away.
He was soon boxed in by cops, but as an officer got out of his car to come and talk to him he accelerated towards the police member, who had to jump out of the way to avoid being crushed.
Young then managed to squeeze his car through a gap and drive off.
But he soon came unstuck, crashing into road signs and coming to a halt in his bashed-up Holden.
Even then he didn’t come quietly, with cops having to smash the driver’s door glass and drag him out of his vehicle.
He was so badly drug-affected he had to be taken to hospital before being remanded in custody.
His defence lawyer said the unemployed roof tiler suffered from mental health and severe substance abuse issues, which began when he started smoking cannabis at the age of 10.
She said “one door led to another” and then he began using ecstasy, speed, heroin and ice which became addictions he struggled to deal with.
Young has a poor criminal history, including being jailed for four months in 2019 for another police pursuit.
Magistrate Julian Ayres said this offending, which was aggravated by his drug-induced state at the time, had placed police officers and the community at serious risk.
Young was jailed for six months, less 57 days he has already served, convicted and fined $1500.
