{"id":376031,"date":"2025-12-28T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376031\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:34:10","slug":"teenagers-charged-after-alleged-aggravated-carjacking-in-melbournes-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376031\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers charged after alleged aggravated carjacking in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An overnight police chase across multiple suburbs has ended with the arrest of three teenagers after an alleged aggravated carjacking in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers say two males, aged 17 and 16, and one female, 13, were allegedly armed with a knife when they approached a car on Blackwood Drive in Hampton Park at about 12.55am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They allegedly threatened the 76-year-old male driver and demanded his keys before fleeing in the car. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Neither the driver nor the other occupants of the car \u2014 two women aged 51 and 77 \u2014 were physically harmed in the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black and white grainy footage shows a car stopped on a road with police approaching.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/33e53a8ed827fad00bebecfb0775308b.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police footage shows officers approaching the alleged offenders. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The allegedly stolen car was tracked by police to the Dandenong area, where it was dumped on Heatherton Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The teenagers then allegedly got into another car, drove away, and were pursued by police through multiple suburbs along the Monash Freeway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police helicopter vision then shows the car coming to a stop on the Princes Highway in Pakenham, where it was quickly surrounded by several officers on foot who arrested the occupants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 16-year-old male has been remanded and charged with offences including theft of a motor vehicle, handling stolen goods, and dangerous driving while pursued by police. He faced the Children&#8217;s Court on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 17-year-old male and 13-year-old girl have been bailed and charged with offences including theft of a motor vehicle and handling stolen goods. They will appear at Dandenong Children&#8217;s Court on January 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An overnight police chase across multiple suburbs has ended with the arrest of three teenagers after an alleged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[202771,45387,202774,159619,202769,43,202772,44,202770,179841,202773,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-376031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aggravated-carjacking","tag-arrest","tag-car-chase","tag-dandenong","tag-hampton-park","tag-headlines","tag-monash-freeway","tag-news","tag-pakenham","tag-police-chase","tag-princes-highway","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}