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GREATER BENDIGO: Aexdale disability horse stolen

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Heathcote Police are investigating the theft of a much beloved disability-support horse from Axedale. ‘Rosie’ has helped over 100 children with disabilities as a therapy horse over the past two years. The mild-mannered equestrian is valued at $40,000 but means even more to the young children who ride her. Investigators have been told the horse…

STATEWIDE: 4 charged after drug trafficking investigation

Major Drug Squad detectives have charged four people and seized commercial quantities of cocaine, various other drugs of dependence and a hydraulic press following a 14-month investigation in drug trafficking in Melbourne. A 41-year-old Williams Landing man was intercepted by the VIPER Taskforce on October 31 after he was observed in what will be alleged…

SOUTH-EAST: Charges after MP death threats

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Australian Federal Police Special Operation Avalite has charged a Victorian man with allegedly making death threats and antisemitic comments to a Federal Member of Parliament.The man, 41, was charged on Tuesday (Mar. 18) with:n One count of using a carriage service to menace, contrary to subsection 474.17 of the Criminal Code (Cth), which carries a…

MONASH: Homophobic assault on train

n Transit officers are investigating a homophobic assault which occurred in Mount Waverley.Investigators have been told a 30-year-old man and his boyfriend boarded a city bound train at Glen Waverley Railway Station about 4.30pm on February 9.The train arrived at Syndal Railway Station and the victim’s boyfriend alighted from the train.As the train was about…

GREATER SHEPPARTON: Cocaine seized

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Police have arrested 12 people and seized a commercial quantity of cocaine, during a major operation targeting firearms, drugs, and persons of interest across Greater Shepparton. Between Monday March 10 and Saturday March 15, detectives from Shepparton Crime Investigation Unit, Divisional Response Unit and Crime Command’s VIPER Taskforce knocked on the doors of 21 homes…

GREATER DANDENONG: Police investigate sexual assault, on bus

Transit Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating following a sexual assault in Dandenong. It is understood a 37-year-old woman was sexually assaulted when she was travelling on a Route 811 bus between Dandenong Railway Station and Brighton about 6.30am on February 17. Police were told the male offender boarded the bus at Dandenong Railway Station….

FRANKSTON: Man charged with affray

Police have a charged a man following an alleged brawl in Frankston on Monday night last week (Mar. 17).Officers responded to reports of a brawl at a licenced venue on Nepean Hwy about 8.40pm.Police were quick to arrive on scene and arrest a man. There were no reported injuries.All others involved in the alleged incident…

MELBOURNE: $11m assets forfeited

Monday, March 17, 2025

More than $11 million worth of assets, including Rolex watches, Cartier jewellery and art by Brett Whiteley has been forfeited to the Commonwealth as suspected proceeds of crime after an AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce investigation. The decision in the Supreme Court of Victoria grew out of AFP-led Operation Fuji, which focused on a large…

HORSHAM: Significant copper thefts

Horsham Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating a series of significant copper thefts targeting rail infrastructure in northern Victoria. Unknown offenders have been cutting lengths of copper wire, up to kilometres at a time, and stealing the product with more than 30 reported incidents occurring between Buangor and Serviceton since February 2024. The offending has…

CASEY: Stolen plates hot-spot

Casey and Greater Dandenong have been identified as Victoria’s epicentre for number plate thefts. According to the latest crime data, Casey has the unenviable title of the worst in the state, with just shy of 2000 reports made to police (1987) in the 12 months to September 2024. Hume ranks second (1408), followed closely by…