A 19-year-old has been arrested after taunting police on Facebook while on the run. Jake Castner, from Ballarat in Victoria, went into hiding last week after a warrant was issued for his arrest in relation to an alleged string of thefts. On his fourth day on the run he boasted on the social media site: ‘We don’t talk to police!’ But on Monday morning Victoria Police say they arrested and interviewed Castner 'in relation to burglary and theft related offences allegedly committed in the Bacchus Marsh and Ballarat areas'. He was arrested in the Mount Helen area just after 11.30am. The troubled teenager’s Facebook page is littered with drug references including offers of ‘bud for cash’ and an image of him appearing to smoke a glass pipe. Joking about the ‘nightmare’ title a magistrate gave him last year when he pleaded guilty to 33 offences, he wrote on Sunday: ‘Me I’m ur worst “NIGHTMARE”.’ Jake Castner, from Ballarat in Victoria, went into hiding last week after a warrant was issued for his arrest . The 19-year-old joked about the 'nightmare' title a magistrate gave him last November . On Sunday, on his fourth day on the run Jake Castner said 'we don't talk to police' On April 6, Castner boasted 'police can't catch me when I'm prowling' A Victoria police spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia before he was arrested: ‘A warrant has been issued for his arrest in relation to a number of burglary and theft related offences in the Bacchus Marsh and Ballarat area.’ On 7 April he claimed he had a locked iPhone 4s for sale and boasted ‘f**k the police can’t catch when I’m prowling haha raided and hit all the legsyz out the window with timmy in the shadows gone [sic].’ On 6 April, he begged for a lift for a lift to hospital and asked for his mother’s phone number. On 7 April Castner claimed he had 'iPhone 4s locked' for sale on his Facebook page . In numerous social media posts Castner asked for lifts in return for 'bud' In another recent post he asked for 'bud 4 cash' via Facebook . On 6 April, he begged for a lift for a lift to hospital and asked for his mother’s phone number . Castner pleaded guilty to 33 offences in November last year . 'Just got raided who can give me a lift might have to go hospital what’s my mums number? Any1 [sic],’ he wrote. When a friend asked if he is OK, he replied: ‘No tripping’. The Courier reports Jake Castner pleaded guilty to drug possession and evading police amongst other charges in November. Local magistrate Cynthia Toose said in court: ‘He’s a nightmare. He goes in and ransacks little children’s bedrooms because he’s got a drug addiction.’ He 'ransacked' a child's bedroom in the past, magistrate Cynthia Toose said . Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
Jake Castner was arrested over alleged burglary and theft-related offences . He was boasting about how the police 'can't catch' him on Facebook . Appeared to offer to sell drugs and a locked iPhone 4 on his page . The 19-year-old was called a nightmare by a magistrate last year . Police arrested the teen from Ballarat, Victoria, on Monday morning .