A DRIVER banned from the roads for nearly a century was one of five dangerous offenders targeted in a joint police taskforce.
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The criminals put lives at risk by speeding, turning lights off, and driving onto the wrong side of the road to avoid arrest.
Albury and Wodonga detectives joined forces amid a spike in car thefts, burglaries and other offences.
All involved had discussed how to deter officers from pursuing them.
Despite all their efforts to evade police – which included two offenders swerving at officers in separate incidents – all are now in custody.
Wodonga man Kane Corben, 22, allegedly drove at an off-duty officer at the Thurgoona BP service station on March 23.
He allegedly drove a car with no number plates at the policeman after he started filming him, causing him to jump out of the way, before reversing back, aiming at the officer, and again trying to run him down with the Volkswagen.
The car missed the officer by only centimetres.
He was forced to jump onto another vehicle to avoid being struck.
Corben was involved in a ram raid on the Thurgoona Golf Club a few hours later and was arrested soon after.
Court documents note he has been banned from driving until January 17, 2115.
He will be eligible to reapply for his Victorian licence when he is aged 120.
Jaydon Mark Doran, also known as Jaydon Moon, will be sentenced for his role in the ram raid in Albury court next week.
Scott Matthew Coleman, also 22, was jailed last week for similar incidents, including driving his car at two female officers on the Lincoln Causeway on April 16.
The Wodonga man had used a stolen Holden Colorado ute to ram a Kyabram motorbike shop before loading it with motorbikes.
The same utility – which Corben and Moon stole from a swimmer at the Wodonga Sports and Leisure Centre – was used in the Thurgoona ram raid.
Less than a week after the Kyabram ram raid, police spotted Coleman riding a blue and white Yamaha dirt bike from McFarland Road.
After being spotted, the 22-year-old gunned it down a footpath but crashed into a fence.
He fled and attended Albury hospital two hours later with deep cuts to his left hand, and told staff he had been in a motorbike smash.
His spree came to an end in a Wodonga back yard when four officers tackled him to the ground, with capsicum spray needed to arrest him.
Coleman was jailed for 14 months last week.
Two other men were arrested as part of the crime spree and are in custody in Victoria.
Corben fronted Albury Local Court last week and will return on June 20.