A MAN charged over a 44-hour siege at Keilor East last week has also been charged with robbing two armed guards at gunpoint at a Laverton North pokies venue in March.
Christopher Dean Binse, 43, has been charged with numerous offences committed between January 21 and May 20.
Charges include assaulting police, three counts of armed robbery, theft, threatening to kill and reckless conduct endangering life.
Police say that on March 19, two security guards were held up by a lone gunman at the Westside Hotel in Laverton North. They say he fled on a motorbike in Leakes Road.
Theft charges relate to the guards’ handguns seized during the heist and the theft of a police radio in Niddrie this month.
Police had tried to speak to a man about a stolen motorbike at La Porchetta pizza restaurant in Keilor Road, Niddrie.
The Keilor East siege ended just after 2am on Wednesday last week when a gunman who had been holed up at his girlfriend’s Sterling Drive home was taken down with non-fatal ‘bean-bag rounds’ fired by the Special Operations Group.
Binse has been remanded to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on
September12.
-Goya Dmytryshchak and Eugene Benson
