{"id":10964,"date":"2025-08-02T04:22:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=10964"},"modified":"2025-08-02T04:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:22:44","slug":"murrindindi-threatened-with-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/08\/02\/murrindindi-threatened-with-axe\/","title":{"rendered":"MURRINDINDI: Threatened with axe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexandra Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man after he was allegedly involved in multiple incidents across the Goulburn Valley on Wednesday (July 30).<br>It is believed officers first sighted an allegedly stolen Toyota Hilux on the Goulburn Valley Hwy and Killingworth Rd in Molesworth about 12.15pm.<br>A man ran from the vehicle into a nearby shed, allegedly stealing another Toyota Hilux.<br>The man drove the Hilux but quickly became bogged, before allegedly running into another property and threatening the occupant with an axe.<br>It is alleged the man stole another Hilux and fled in the vehicle.<br>Police monitored the stolen vehicle into the Yarck area when they received reports of a collision on the Maroondah Hwy about 1.50pm.<br>Officers were quickly on scene and attempted to arrest the man, who was allegedly resistant and violent towards them.<br>A taser was deployed, and although unsuccessful, officers were still able to overpower the man and take him into custody.<br>The 33-year-old man was taken to hospital under police guard.<br>He has since been charged with:<br>\u2022 Aggravated burglary &#8211; offensive weapon<br>\u2022 Aggravated burglary &#8211; person present<br>\u2022 Aggravated carjacking &#8211; offensive weapon<br>\u2022 Attempted carjacking<br>\u2022 Reckless conducted endangering life<br>\u2022 Burglary (4)<br>\u2022 Theft (12)<br>\u2022 Common law assault<br>\u2022 Fail to stop vehicle on police direction<br>\u2022 Dangerous driving while pursued by police<br>\u2022 Possess controlled weapon (2)<br>\u2022 Unlicensed driving<br>\u2022 Recklessly cause injury<br>He was to appear at the Seymour Magistrates\u2019 Court via audio visual link.<br>The driver of the other vehicle involved in the collision, an 83-year-old Bonnie Doon man, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<br>Anyone who witnessed the incidents, has CCTV\/dashcam footage or information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or www.crimestoppersvic.com.au<br><br><strong>Pictured: Seymour Magistrates&#8217; Court<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man after he was allegedly involved in multiple incidents across the Goulburn Valley on Wednesday (July 30).It is believed officers first sighted an allegedly stolen Toyota Hilux on the Goulburn Valley Hwy and Killingworth Rd in Molesworth about 12.15pm.A man ran from the vehicle into a nearby&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10971,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions\/10971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}