A MAN has been committed to stand trial in the County Court after he allegedly committed offences theft, trespass, assault, and reversed into a police vehicle.
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Police said Timothy Walker, who was 36 at the time of the alleged offending, drove a motor vehicle in the vicinity of police officers intending to expose them to risk on November 2, 2020.
He was also charged with four counts of assaulting an emergency worker on duty, on the same occasion.
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Mr Walker was also charged with driving at speed and in a dangerous manner, including crashing red lights and driving on the wrong side of the road, on November 5.
Mr Walker pleaded not guilty to the 33 charges laid against him, which included theft and trespass.
On Thursday, Magistrate Ross Betts said he was satisfied there was enough evidence to commit the accused man for trial in the County Court.
Court documents state Mr Walker was charged with stealing a Mitsubishi Triton on October 21, 2020, driving it dangerously after being given a direction to stop on October 22, and driving on a highway without holding a drivers' licence on multiple occasions.
Other charges laid against Mr Walker included trespass and theft offences.
In the Magistrates' Court on Thursday, a Bendigo officer said that he recognised Mr Walker from a photograph he had recently seen when he saw a white single cab ute in the bush on Empire Road, when his unmarked car was called to a job there.
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Several Melbourne police officers also alleged a white Triton utility reversed into a police divisional van after it was called to a 7-Eleven where it had been sighted by police airwing.
The officer driving this van - a first constable at the Boroondara Police Station - said he drove up behind the 7-Eleven, while another police vehicle came up from the other side.
The first constable said he pulled up about three metres behind the Triton Mitsubishi, which was parked next to the bowsers, when the driver put the ute in reverse and slammed into the front of his vehicle.
Another officer said he already had background information that a white Mistubishi Triton had been disobeying certain road rules.
He alleged as he got out of the vehicle after it was hit, he saw the Triton driving away through temporary fencing. He said another police vehicle had come in through the 7-Eleven's other entrance.
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An officer in the second vehicle said when he pulled in to the 7-Eleven the first thing he saw was the Triton drive back into the divisional van.
He said he then went forward, and rammed into the front of the Triton to pin it in.
He said the Triton then wiggled free and drove into temporary fencing.
Mr Walker made no application for bail. He is due to appear in the County Court in October.
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