A man has been charged with the vandalism of the Lindt Cafe in Sydney's Martin Place and is also accused of attacking a police officer on the same night.
An officer's jaw was broken while he tried to arrest the Concord man, who had been driving on the wrong side of the road on Tuesday night, police allege.
The man has been charged with several offences including malicious damage after rocks were thrown through the cafe's windows overnight. He is due to appear in Central Court on Wednesday.
The man was stopped in his car on Oxford Street by officers, who initially questioned him about the pursuit and then the rock-throwing incident, police say.
As police tried to arrest the man, he allegedly assaulted the officer who is now in hospital.
The 34-year-old man has been charged with driving in a dangerous manner, police pursuit (Skye's Law), assaulting police occasioning actual bodily harm, resisting arrest and malicious damage.
The Lindt Cafe was closed for several hours on Wednesday morning as police gathered evidence.
Five gaping holes could be seen in the windows of the cafe, which was the scene of the deadly siege in December.
The vandalism incident has no suspected link to December's deadly siege, Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says.
It comes as an inquest into the siege, which claimed the lives of hostages Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson, as well as gunman Man Monis, continues in Sydney on Wednesday.
The Lindt Cafe was closed for several months after the siege and reopened in March.
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