Banyule Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a teenager following an alleged car-jacking incident in Diamond Creek over the weekend.
A 16-year-old Watsonia girl has been charged with carjacking, assaulting a police officer, possession of drugs and other driving offences.
It is alleged a woman was driving a vehicle on Bruce Street, before allegedly being stopped by a teenager who was armed with a weapon about 9.40pm on Sunday, 21 August.
Police were told the girl stole the vehicle and fled the scene in the car.
The allegedly stolen car was involved in a single vehicle crash a short time later on Diamond Creek Road, where the 16-year-old girl was arrested.
She will appear at a Children’s Court at a later date.
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