Police have charged a man after an allegedly stolen vehicle was followed through multiple suburbs before it crashed into a shopping centre in Malvern East this morning.
Officers spotted the stolen Hyundai on Blackburn Road in Glen Waverley about 9am.
Air Wing followed the vehicle through Mount Waverly and Oakleigh East before it fled towards Chadstone Shopping Centre.
The Hyundai was tracked to an underground carpark at the shopping centre a short time later.
It is alleged the male driver jumped from the moving vehicle in a carpark, before it crashed into the wall of a shopping centre.
There were no injuries.
Officers allegedly chased the man on foot through the shopping centre where he was arrested.
The 26-year-old Rawson man was taken into custody where he was interviewed by detectives.
He has since been charged with:
- Dangerous driving whilst being pursued by police
- Reckless conduct endangering serious injury
- Exceed prescribed concentration of drugs
- Possess drug of dependence
- Driving whilst disqualified
- Theft of motor vehicle
- Theft
He will appear at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court this evening.
The Hyundai was allegedly stolen from Doncaster on the 31 July.
