A 47-YEAR-old Patterson Lakes woman had her car hijacked at the Chelsea shopping centre, 7.50am, Saturday.
The woman was sitting in her 2005 Honda CRV in Nepean Hwy talking on her mobile phone when a man opened the driver’s side door and ordered her out.
The man, 29, later found to be of no fixed address, got in and drove off erratically. He later crashed the car into another at the intersection of Springvale and Pillars roads, Bangholme, and, when people stopped to help, he jumped into a car owned by a 63-year-old Bangholme man and crashed that one, too.
By this time police had arrived and arrested the man, who is also suspected of being involved in armed robberies in Keysborough and Cheltenham.
A man fitting his description reportedly entered a pharmacy on the corner of Centre Dandenong and Warrigal roads, 7pm, Tuesday 3 November, and produced a large knife. The man demanded, and received, prescription drugs from a 23-year-old shop assistant. He has been remanded in custody until all charges have been finalised and will appear at court at a later date.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 11 November 2015