Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged two boys, following an alleged armed robbery and a collision, in Melbourne’s southern suburbs yesterday (7 December).
It is alleged that two offenders armed with machetes approached a male victim on McCormick’s Road in Skye about 2.15pm.
The two alleged offenders made threats and demands for the boy’s shoes and phone before he handed them over.
The alleged offenders took off from the scene, with the shoes and phone, in a silver Toyota Kluger.
The victim, a 16-year-old boy from the Frankston area, was not physically injured.
A short time later it is alleged that the same offenders produced a firearm and threatened a woman in parkland on Monterey Boulevard in Frankston North about 2.30pm.
The victim, a 29-year-old Frankston South woman, was not physically injured.
The alleged offenders left the scene in a silver Toyota Kluger, driving erratically and at a fast rate of speed.
Later in the afternoon police spotted the Toyota on Lambert Street in Frankston North about 5.30pm.
Officers kept their distance as the Toyota was tracked to Frankston-Dandenong Road where it collided with two vehicles.
There were no injuries.
Two occupants dumped the Toyota and allegedly took off on foot into a nearby paddock.
Police undertook a foot chase before arresting two males, allegedly found in possession of balaclavas and gloves.
Officers searched the Toyota and seized a knife and parts of an imitation firearm.
A 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, both from the Frankston area, were charged with armed robbery, weapons offences and driving offences.
They will appear before Melbourne Magistrates’ court later today.
