Man charged with assaulting police, false imprisonment, threats to kill and other offences following a carjacking and siege
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A man has been charged over carjacking and a siege involving an innocent father and his toddler, who were held inside their own home for hours.
The ordeal stared on Tuesday when a police helicopter followed a car in Melbourne’s west that was believed to have been stolen in a carjacking in Snake Valley earlier in the day, Victoria police said.
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