An alleged car thief and axe-wielding home invader who went on a crime spree across Victoria’s south-east has been remanded in custody.

Darren Reid, 34, appeared at the Latrobe Valley Magistrates’ Court on Friday for a filing hearing.

Nine police surround one man (face not shown) as two of them put him in the back of a divvy van in a residential street.

Police arresting a man in Trafalgar on Wednesday. (Supplied: Peter Negus)

Mr Reid, of no fixed address, has been charged with 66 offences, including aggravated burglary with an offensive weapon, attempted aggravated burglary, carjacking, armed robbery, five counts of theft of a motor vehicle, reckless conduct endangering life, unlicensed driving and aggravated intentional exposure to a police officer to risk by driving.

Police have alleged the series of incidents began on December 28 when Mr Reid approached a female victim on Firmins Lane in Hazelwood South, demanded the keys to her car and fled in her vehicle.

A red SUV crashed through short brick wall of front yard on corner property.

The crashed vehicle in a front yard in Trafalgar. (ABC News: Jack Franco Colantuono)

In the following days he is alleged to have rammed a police vehicle in Traralgon East, broken into a home with an axe in Glengarry before stealing another car, fleeing police in bushland in Moondarra, driving dangerously during two police pursuits and crashing a stolen vehicle into a home in Trafalgar. Police arrested him in Trafalgar on December 31.

Mr Reid, who appeared in court via video link, has been remanded in custody until April 7 for a committal mention.