Four teens charged after police chase ends at Sunbury Square Shopping Centre
Four teenagers have been charged after allegedly breaking into homes armed with machetes before leading police on a dramatic car chase that ended at a shopping centre in the city’s northwest.
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Four teenagers have been charged after allegedly leading police on a wild car chase that ended in a dramatic arrest at a Sunbury shopping centre carpark on Monday.
It’s alleged the teens broke into two homes and attempted a carjacking in Mickleham about 6.30am while armed with machetes.
No one was injured in the home invasions.
The teenagers allegedly left the scene in a stolen vehicle and were chased by Air Wing police as they drove through Wyndham Vale, Werribee and suburbs northwest of Melbourne.
At times the car clocked speeds of up to 200km/h in an allegedly stolen black Nissan Pathfinder.
Critical Incident Response Team officers arrested them just before 10am outside Sunbury Square Shopping Centre.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with theft of motor vehicle.
A 15-year-old girl has been charged with aggravated home invasion, theft of motor vehicle, home invasion, attempted aggravated carjacking, attempted home invasion, reckless conduct endanger life, dangerous driving while being pursued by police.
Another 15-year-old girl has been charged with theft of motor vehicle.
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with theft of motor vehicle, home invasion, attempted aggravated carjacking, attempted home invasion.
All will appear in the Children’s Court at a later date.
At least 12 unmarked police cars chased a black SUV across Melbourne’s western and northern suburbs.
Onlookers reported seeing the car driving erratically towards the CBD about 9.30am before it changed course and drove towards Tullamarine.
Louisa, who was leaving the shopping centre at the time of the incident, said she watched the dramatic arrests as police surrounded the carpark.
“I’ve come out of the shopping centre where two police cars have blocked in a black (vehicle),” she told 3AW.
“They’ve got two people … one’s on the ground in handcuffs, they’ve got zip ties on him and there’s another one further up sitting on the gutter. There’s about 20 police and probably more coming.”
Louisa said one alleged offender could be heard directing “colourful” language towards police.
“There’s one guy on the ground wearing runners, black jeans, light top yelling at them (police),” she said.
“There was a lot of running around when I first saw it.
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