{"id":386254,"date":"2026-01-02T06:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386254\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:12:10","slug":"man-faces-court-after-alleged-crime-spree-police-pursuit-in-latrobe-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386254\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces court after alleged crime spree, police pursuit in Latrobe Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An alleged car thief and axe-wielding home invader who went on a crime spree across Victoria&#8217;s south-east has been remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Darren Reid, 34, appeared at the Latrobe Valley Magistrates&#8217; Court on Friday for a filing hearing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"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.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767334329_977_ed1fa5764e0ece20a1d66585fcc193dc.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 arresting a man in Trafalgar on Wednesday. (Supplied: Peter Negus)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">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.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A red SUV crashed through short brick wall of front yard on corner property.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b3e8748759f1b64320b433f61fb92f77.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\">The crashed vehicle in a front yard in Trafalgar. (ABC News: Jack Franco Colantuono)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr Reid, who appeared in court via video link, has been remanded in custody until April 7 for a committal mention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alleged car thief and axe-wielding home invader who went on a crime spree across Victoria&#8217;s south-east has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[78964,64,63,207281,1108,207280,207279,57480,29204,44,72899],"class_list":{"0":"post-386254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-alleged","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-carjackings","12":"tag-court","13":"tag-crime-spree","14":"tag-darren-reid","15":"tag-gippsland","16":"tag-latrobe-valley","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-trafalgar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386254","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=386254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}