A MAN has been arrested after allegedly trying to evade police in Frankston last week.
Detectives said they intercepted the man’s white 1989 Mitsubishi light truck, allegedly bearing false plates, in Havana Crescent, 2pm, Tuesday (25 April).
They said the man initially pulled the vehicle over but sped off as detectives approached on foot. The detectives saw the car soon afterwards and again pulled it over.
Senior Constable Alistair Parsons, of police media, said the 26-year-old driver then “made a triple zero call and reported an incident in a nearby street in an attempt to have the detectives redirected”.
Police “soon realised what was happening and diverted resources to his location and not the fictional incident”.
The Frankston man was charged with making a false call to emergency services, driving an unregistered motor vehicle, fraudulently using registration plates, evading police, possessing a controlled weapon, and two counts of failing to answer bail.
He was remanded to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on 18 May.
