Carjacking charges

Police have charged a man following an alleged aggravated carjacking in Kurunjang.

Police have charged a Kalkallo man following an alleged aggravated carjacking in Kurunjang on Saturday, March 25.

It is alleged a man got into a vehicle on London Court about 6pm after arranging a test drive with a woman who was selling the car.

The man allegedly stopped the car, threatened the woman, then assaulted her before she was pushed out of the vehicle on The Embankment.

She sustained minor injuries, and the man fled the scene in the vehicle, police said.

Police executed a warrant at a property in Kalkallo yesterday, where a man and woman were arrested.

The 38-year-old Kalkallo man has been charged with a number of offences including aggravated carjacking, robbery and threatening to inflict serious injury.

He has been remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday, March 29.

The 31-year-old Kalkallo woman was charged with unrelated offences including theft, handling stolen goods and obtaining property by deception.

She has been bailed to appear at Broadmeadows Magistrates Court on August 9.