AN elderly couple was forced to flee their home after an armed man burst into their lounge room during a dramatic siege in Frankston last week.
The couple’s home in Reid St was one of three properties allegedly “invaded” while occupants were inside during a police chase on Monday afternoon.
A 36-year-old Frankston man was later arrested and remanded in custody on multiple charges including three counts of aggravated burglary following a 45-minute stand-off with police.
The drama began when the alleged offender ran from police after his vehicle was pulled over in Lardner St, near Monash University, about 12pm.
Multiple police units, including the dog squad, were called in as the man ran along Heatherhill Rd then over Frankston Flinders Rd and Foot St before running through a number of houses and properties about two blocks away from Frankston High and Overport Primary schools.
The man is alleged to have entered an occupied house in Oxford St, where police say he stole a number of items including a change of clothes, before jumping the back fence into a second property fronting onto Cambridge St.
He is then alleged to have fled over the fences of a number of other properties before breaking into a house in Reid St where police said he stole a bicycle, car keys and knives.
When police confronted the man as he tried to exit the front of property on the bicycle while wearing the new set of clothes, he is alleged to have threatened them with a knife before again fleeing into another house after smashing the front window with a running kick.
The man dove through the broken glass into the house then bolted out the back door and over the fences of two more properties, before arriving at the elderly couple’s home.
The terrified man and woman ran out the back door of their home after the man suddenly appeared in their lounge room allegedly brandishing a number of knives. Police sealed off the street and surrounded the house. The man is alleged to have made “various threats” while holed up in the couple’s house during a tense standoff.
However, police were able to talk the man down and he surrendered peacefully after about 45 minutes.
He has been remanded in custody and will appear in court at a date to be fixed.
