{"id":484592,"date":"2026-01-01T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/484592\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:12:12","slug":"police-charge-man-following-alleged-crime-spree-in-latrobe-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/484592\/","title":{"rendered":"Police charge man following alleged crime spree in Latrobe Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have charged a 34-year-old man with 66 offences after a two-day pursuit in the Latrobe Valley that resulted in a police officer being injured and multiple police vehicles being rammed.<\/p>\n

The man was captured when an allegedly stolen red SUV crashed through a garden wall<\/a> of a home on Anzac Road in Trafalgar on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

\"SUV<\/p>\n

The man allegedly crashed into a Trafalgar resident’s front yard. (ABC News: Jack Franco Colantuono)<\/p>\n

He has now been charged with offences including carjacking, aggravated burglary with an offensive weapon, armed robbery, thefts of five motor vehicles, burglary, reckless conduct endangering life and attempted aggravated burglary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police said detectives had been searching for the man following the alleged crime spree<\/a> when he crashed in Trafalgar.<\/p>\n

Police allege the man stole petrol from a petrol station in Tyers in a stolen Mitsubishi at about 8.20am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Officers then pursued the Mitsubishi on several occasions throughout Morwell and Trafalgar before the Mitsubishi allegedly rammed several police vehicles and collided with a police officer.<\/p>\n

Police said the injured male police officer sustained lower-body injuries and was transported to the hospital and has since been released.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old was transported to the hospital after his arrest and was released on Thursday before being charged and remanded in custody.<\/p>\n

\"Damaged<\/p>\n

The scene at the crash in Trafalgar on Wednesday. (ABC News: Jack Frano Colantuono)<\/p>\n

He is due to appear at the Latrobe Valley Magistrates\u2019 Court on January 2.<\/p>\n

Police have asked anyone who witnessed the incident or has dashcam footage of a man driving a Mitsubishi Outlander along the Princes Highway on Wednesday at about 8.30am to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged a 34-year-old man with 66 offences after a two-day pursuit in the Latrobe Valley that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":484593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12424,4740,34474,4219,35115,83859,50,7207,219164],"class_list":{"0":"post-484592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-charges","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-latrobe-valley","13":"tag-manhunt","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-spree"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115819547528934965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}