Police have charged a 36-year-old Craigieburn man following an alleged armed robbery at a Deer Park post office on Saturday, May 31.
Troy MacKay handed himself in at the Melton police station about 11pm on Tuesday.
He faced Melbourne Magistrates Court last Wednesday charged with armed robbery offences.
Police allege a man entered the post office at a shopping centre on Neale Road just before 10.30am.
He jumped over the counter and stole cash from three cash registers. Police said the man fled the scene and was last seen running south towards Neale Road and Gould Street.
MacKay will face a bail hearing on June 18 and is due to reappear in court again on August 27.
Meanwhile, a high-speed probationary motorcyclist from Delahey who was described in court as having a “death wish” has lost his licence and received a suspended jail term.
Melbourne Magistrates Court heard last Wednesday that Jali Enrique Perez Ramon endangered lives when he “opened up” his new black Yamaha R1 to speeds of 190km/h on the Eastern Freeway and 100km/h in a busy Collingwood street.
A driver overtaken by Ramon described as “unnerving” the sight of a bike travelling at such an “extremely aggressive speed” and remarked that he would “probably see that this rider had been killed on the news tonight”. A prosecution summary stated that Ramon’s two-minute ride ended when his motorbike crashed into the rear of a car and he was thrown from his bike.
Ramon was hospitalised, spent two months off work and, with permanent damage to one testicle, “is going to have lifelong memories of this”, the court was told.
The summary stated Ramon had performed an “aggressive and erratic” turn into Hoddle Street and, with a police car following with activated lights and siren, he had mounted a median strip to push past heavy traffic, driven through a red traffic light and narrowly missed a truck while trying to evade police.
Police caught up with Ramon at the accident scene. He told them he was on his lunch break and was taking his new bike for “a test run”.
Ramon pleaded guilty to charges of driving at a dangerous speed and driving dangerously.
He was jailed for 10 months, the term suspended for two years. His licence was cancelled for 18 months and he was convicted and fined $2000.
