{"id":67576,"date":"2026-08-08T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/67576\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:55:09","slug":"man-charged-for-allegedly-smashing-cars-before-police-chase-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/67576\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged for allegedly smashing cars before police chase in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has been charged after he allegedly went on a car-smashing spree before leading police on a wild chase through Perth’s northern suburbs.<\/p>\n

Police allege the 45-year-old began his 90-minute rampage at midday in a Toyota Camry, which was driven through several suburbs including Mount Lawley, Perth, Inglewood, East Perth, South Perth, Carine, Madeley and Duncraig.<\/p>\n

It is alleged that after stopping and jumping out of his car, he then used a metal pole to strike at least 20 parked or stationary vehicles, causing significant damage.<\/p>\n

Several people were inside their vehicles at the time but no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

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Police received numerous reports from the public about the man’s alleged behaviour.\u00a0 (ABC News: Keane Bourke)<\/p>\n

After receiving numerous reports of the destructive behaviour, police co-ordinated a cross-district response to locate the Toyota Camry, which was spotted, from the sky, in the northern suburbs.<\/p>\n

The man allegedly failed to stop and led officers on a high-speed chase, during which he allegedly drove recklessly and on the wrong side of the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was arrested when the vehicle finally came to a stop on Lilburne Road in Duncraig.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The man, from Gosnells, was due to face court on Saturday charged with a string of offences including criminal damage, being armed in a way that may cause fear, and reckless driving to escape pursuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after he allegedly went on a car-smashing spree before leading police on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86930,4912,86928,1328,1327,335,463,86929,464,3746],"class_list":["post-67576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-car-smashing-spree","tag-criminal-damage","tag-man-damages-cars-perth","tag-news-perth","tag-news-wa","tag-perth","tag-perth-news","tag-vehicle-damage","tag-wa-news","tag-wa-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}