A 36-year-old Pakenham man has been remanded into custody, after a pursuit and a failed attempt to hide saw police allegedly find him in possession of drugs, multiple firearms with some loaded and in a vehicle with stolen plates.
At approximately 3.54am on Monday 15 April, police from Endeavour Hills were called to an address in Carl Court, Hallam regarding a suspicious vehicle.
The registration was checked and revealed that the plates were stolen from a different vehicle. The vehicle took off from police and the Police Airwing was able to give directions of the vehicle to police on the ground.
Police attempted to disable the vehicle with stop sticks and the vehicle was eventually discarded in an underground carpark in Lyall Road, Berwick.
The airwing was able to observe the driver hiding underneath a staircase at the nearby shopping centre, where he was arrested by officers.
After identifying the man, a search was conducted where drugs were located on him.
A search of the vehicle also located five firearms with two being loaded as well as a large amount of ammunition.
