Three teens attack cabbie with baseball bat, damage homes and cars during 14-hour crime spree across Darwin

VIDEO: Teens’ servo drive-off caught on CCTV during 14-hour crime spree

POLICE are hunting three teenagers who allegedly attacked a taxi driver with a baseball bat and damaged homes and cars during a 14-hour crime spree across Darwin.

Officers were searching for two boys and one girl, aged between 14 and 16, in Parap late yesterday afternoon after the car they were in was abandoned in Dick Ward Drive.

The youths also spray-painted the car black in a bid to hide from police and confronted a person at Lee Point Caravan Park with a tomahawk, a police spokeswoman said.

The spree started with an attack on a taxi driver on Old McMillans Rd, Coconut Grove.

The NT News understands the driver and his passenger stopped for a car parked in the middle of the road with its hazards lights on just before midnight on Tuesday.

The group left the car and attacked the taxi with baseball bats, but the driver and passenger escaped unharmed. Police allege the group used the same white Toyota Corolla with Victorian numberplates to ram the fences of homes on Aralia St, Nightcliff, and smashed car windows on Casuarina Drive about 2am.

Police are searching for three teenagers allegedly involved in a 14-hour crime spree across Darwin, which included this fuel drive-off from a Caltex service station in Eaton caught on CCTV. Picture: Supplied

Just over three hours later, police believe the same group stole the numberplates from a car at Mitaros Place.

The car was next seen on CCTV footage caught in a fuel drive-off at a Caltex service station in Eaton at 7.30am.

Police received reports the car was hooning around the Lee Point Caravan Park, and a person was threatened with a tomahawk.

The car was found burnt out on Dick Ward Drive at 2pm.

Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Stringer said police wanted to speak with the youths in relation to the crime spree.

“They were last seen in scrubland bordered by Dick Ward Drive, Nemarluk Drive and Richardson Park,” he said.

They are described as two indigenous males aged between 15 and 16 years old, both 177cm tall, slim build and short light brown hair.

One was last seen wearing a dark grey shirt.

The third is described as an indigenous girl aged between 14 and 15 with long blonde and brown hair.

Sen-Sgt Stringer asked anyone who may have seen the individuals not to approach them.

Anyone with information should contact police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.