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Police are investigating following a collision in Point Cook on Saturday afternoon (Oct. 19) that left a police officer requiring hospital treatment.Police located two people asleep in a stolen Mazda CX9 on Sneydes Rd just before 1pm.Officers attempted to wake the male driver who resisted police before accelerating into a police vehicle parked in front
Voters who lodged their completed ballot packs at nine Australia Post boxes in the Mount Waverley and Oakleigh areas last week are being urged to contact the Victorian Electoral Commission for a replacement vote, after an Australia Post collection vehicle was stolen on Thursday (Oct. 17).Any voter who lodged their completed ballot pack at Australia
Detectives from the Sexual Crimes Squad have arrested and charged a man as part of an investigation into a historic rape.Detectives travelled to Queensland as part of an ongoing investigation and arrested a 57-year-old man last Thursday (Oct. 17).The man was extradited to Victoria on Saturday (Oct. 19) and subsequently charged.Charges include:– Abduction by force
Emergency services responded to reports a tree had fallen on a tent and vehicle in Kevington on Saturday morning (Oct. 19).The large tree had fallen at a campground near Eildon Jamieson Rd about 3am.The 27-year-old Bayles man died at the scene.The death is not being treated as suspicious and police will prepare a report for
Melton Crime Investigation Unit detectives have laid nearly 100 charges and recovered 14 stolen vehicles as part of an ongoing investigation into a series car thefts across the western suburbs of Melbourne.The Volume Crime Reduction Team, with detectives from both Melton and Whittlesea CIU, arrested the first of two men on Thursday, October 3.The 23-year-old
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate Nathan Jones.The 21-year-old is wanted on warrant in relation to theft of motor vehicle, burglary and driving a motor vehicle impaired. Jones is known to frequent the Reservoir area.He is described as approximately 165cm tall, of thin build, with blonde hair.
The young girl critically injured in last Thursday’s Endeavor Hills collision has died in hospital.Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following the collision, which occurred at the intersection of James Cook Drive and Heatherton Rd, on about 8.30am.The 24-year-old man has been charged with one count of dangerous driving causing serious injury.It
Moonee Valley Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a woman who allegedly stabbed a man in Moonee Ponds and another man in Kensington on Thursday (Oct. 18).Officers were called to reports a woman was armed with a knife inside a business on Puckle St about 11am.It is alleged the woman stabbed a 74-year-old man, before
Macedon Highway Patrol officers will investigate the circumstances surrounding a fatal crash in Riddells Creek on Friday morning (Oct. 18).Police were told that a young woman was driving along Kilmore Rd, about 500m east of Mount Charlie Rd, when it appears she lost control and crashed into a tree about 7.15am.The 21-year-old from Lancefield died
Four people have been charged after alleged assaults on police officers, horses and attendees outside the Land Forces Expo in Melbourne last month.The arrests come as detectives from Bastion Taskforce continue to investigate the September 11 protest, with images released of a further six people they are hoping to identify.In addition to the 89 people
