Footage from a police helicopter exhibits two fugitives endangering different drivers as they allegedly sped at 200km/h on a Melbourne freeway.
Jordan Jenkins, 19, and William Dowell, 20, had been inside an allegedly stolen Hyundai Sante Fe that soared up an emergency lane on EastLink towards oncoming site visitors earlier than 11am on Monday.
The pair had been monitored by Victoria Police's Air Wing as Jenkins allegedly drove at speeds of 200km/h and got here inside centimetres of crashing head-on into automobiles between Cheltenham and Cranbourne.
The footage exhibits the Sante Fe cross a median strip to be on the fallacious aspect of the highway at one level earlier than it sped via two crimson lights and a pedestrian crossing.
The pair ditched the Sante Fe at Cranbourne Park Buying Centre simply after 11am, the place they allegedly used a Mazda to flee to a residential space of Cranbourne.
Police mentioned they discovered the pair hiding within the roof area of a Cranbourne dwelling and used capsicum spray while arresting them.
It is alleged the pair had been on a criminal offense spree that started once they stole the Santa Fe from Cheltenham on Saturday evening.
They allegedly broke into properties in Mount Waverley and Oakleigh on Monday and had been confronted by occupants on each events, simply earlier than the excessive velocity police chase.
Dowell was allegedly within the passenger seat through the chase.
The Carrum Downs man was denied bail earlier than Moorabbin Magistrates' Courtroom this afternoon, with the court docket listening to he was bailed by police simply 4 days earlier than the alleged spree.
The court docket heard he had instructed police that he took ice and Xanax earlier than the alleged offending and couldn't bear in mind what occurred.