A 26-year-old Epping man has appeared in court after a dramatic arrest in the Altona Bunnings carpark last Friday.
Shocked shoppers said they witnessed a young man in a black Mercedes Benz ram another car before members of the Special Operations Group and plainclothes police swooped, in the carpark off Millers Road about 1pm.
Abdul Tiba, 26, appeared briefly in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday for a filing hearing.
He is facing 12 charges including kidnapping, imprisoning, assaulting and threatening to kill a woman at Epping on February 8.
He is also facing two charges of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. One charge relates to having a firearm on the day of his arrest.
He’s also charged with ramming a police car and endangering members of the public by driving dangerously.
He was remanded to appear in the same court in May.
A woman, who asked that her name be withheld, witnessed the dramatic arrest.
“There were undercover cars everywhere, blocking the entrance, and SWAT teams and everything, with guns,” she said.
