Police News

ALPINE: Fatal crash in Buffalo River

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Police are investigating after a person was located deceased in an overturned car in Buffalo River on Saturday morning (Mar. 8). The car was spotted by a passerby in waters off Buffalo River Rd about 9am. Search and Rescue Squad officers were deployed to the scene to conduct a search of the vehicle. One person…

BAYSIDE: Firearms, drugs crackdown – 15 charged

Police have seized illegal firearms, ammunition, explosive devices, and drugs, resulting in the arrests of 15 people subject to Firearms Prohibition Orders in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs. Investigators from the Caulfield Divisional Response Unit – with assistance from the Public Order Response Team and general duties officers – conducted 30 compliance checks on people already known…

BASS COAST: Rescued woman charged

Wonthaggi police have a charged woman with a number of offences after she was rescued while fishing in Foster in the early hours of Monday, March 3. It is believed the woman drove to Foster Beach and got into trouble while fishing for garfish at Foster Beach sometime overnight. Officers have been told the woman,…

MANNINGHAM: 3 drink drivers nabbed at East Doncaster

It was busy for Police on Friday night (Mar. 7), operating a random breath testing site in East Doncaster. Officers first waved in two men in separate vehicles at the site on Reynolds Rd about 6.30pm. The men each undertook a preliminary breath test, before both undertaking evidentiary breath tests. The first man, a 28-year-old…

SOUTH-WEST: $1.2m drugs seized

Police have dismantled an alleged drug trafficking network following an investigation into the importation and distribution of a commercial quantity of ketamine in Victoria’s south-west. Detectives from Warrnambool Crime Investigation Unit, with support from Icarus Taskforce, commenced an investigation earlier this year after Australia Border Force detected approximately six kilograms of illicit drugs, with an…

MELBOURNE: $35,000 swindler faces sentencing

Friday, March 7, 2025

A Melbourne man charged as part of an international police takedown of a cybercrime platform has been ordered to pay $34,990 compensation for fraud-related offences. The man, 21, was sentenced on Friday (mar. 7) in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty on Monday (Mar. 3) to seven charges.  In addition to the compensation order, the…

NORTH MELBOURNE: Bottle shop thief returns

North Melbourne police are appealing for public assistance after a number of thefts from a local liquor store. Investigators have been told that a man has entered a premises Canning St, North Melbourne, on at least 31 separate occasions and has stolen alcohol. The thefts have occurred between February 24, 2024 and February 25, 2025…

MELBOURNE: Attempted kidnapping probe

Melbourne Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating an alleged attempted kidnapping which occurred in Melbourne last year. Investigators have been told the victim, a 36-year-old woman, was contacted on November 4 by people purporting to be from Chinese immigration and police. They told her her phone number had been used in local scams. The victim…

KINGSTON: Car fire at Patterson Lakes

Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating after a stolen car was set alight in Patterson Lakes last month. A stolen orange 2017 Holden Commodore sedan bearing stolen registration plates XQA765 collided with the barriers on Thompson Road at Mornington Peninsula Freeway overpass in Patterson Lakes at 11.40pm on 26 February. The driver was collected…

MELBOURNE: Identity theft case makes it way to Court after Lynbrook raid

A Melbourne man was expected to face the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (Mar. 6) after allegedly trying to steal mobile numbers from unsuspecting victims of identity theft.   An Australian telecommunications company last year alerted the Australian Federal Police that multiple attempts had been made to port mobile numbers to its network using potentially stolen…