Boroondara Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man after officers responded to two alleged incidents in Doncaster and Balwyn North overnight.
Two adults and a child were awoken when a man allegedly entered a residential premises on Hender Street, Doncaster about 11.10pm.
A resident allegedly told the man to leave, and he fled the scene on foot.
At the second address the occupant was woken by the same man inside her property on Winfield Road, Balwyn North just after 2am.
The man fled the scene on foot and was located a short time later in a vacant block next door.
No one was physically injured, and nothing was stolen.
A 25-year-old Doncaster man was charged with criminal damage and trespass (2).
He was bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrate's Court on 18 November.
