Police News

YARRA: Carjack bid in Bendigo St

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Melbourne Divisional Response Unit have charged two teenagers following alleged attempted carjackings and a collision in a stolen vehicle in Richmond on Friday afternoon (Feb. 7).It is alleged a stolen white Subaru Outback wagon pulled up behind a blue BMW on Bendigo St about 1.30pm.A male occupant of the Subaru allegedly got out of the…

MORNINGTON PENINSULA: Safety Beach duo charged

Friday, February 7, 2025

Mornington Divisional Response Unit officers have charged a man and woman following a warrant in Safety Beach where they allegedly located a commercial quantity of 1,4 Butanediol and a stolen shotgun.A search warrant was executed at a property on Rymer Avenue on Wednesday (Feb. 5) about 1pm.Officers allegedly located a stolen shotgun concealed in an…

GREATER DANDENONG: Drugs, firearms parts seized at Noble Park

Detectives from the Illicit Firearms Squad last week served a Firearm Prohibition Order on a Noble Park man, locating cartridge ammunition, a shotgun receiver and what appears to be methylamphetamine.Investigators attended the Noble Park address to serve the FPO before a search of the premises located the items.A 41-year-old Noble Park man was charged with…

HUME: Road rage at Roxburgh Park

Police are appealing for public assistance and dashcam footage as they investigate a road rage incident where a man was assaulted in Roxburgh Park on Thursday (Feb. 6).It is understood a man was travelling north on Sydney Rd in a black Volkswagen Golf sedan when a group of motorcyclists drove erratically in front of him…

MERRI-BEK: Fake plate racket busted

n Some 26 stolen cars have been recovered and more than 130 false number plates seized as part of a regular car theft operation in Mel-bourne’s inner northern suburbs.Uniform police have been running Operation Boston in Merri-bek since August last year, utilising Automatic Number Plate Recognition Technology to rapidly scan vehicles and identify if they…

MORNINGTON PENMINSULA: Teen terror at Somerville

Police arrested three teenage boys after they allegedly pointed imitation handguns at people in a Somerville shopping centre on Thursday.It is alleged the boys stole the imitation guns from a store inside the centre on Eramosa Rd about 10.40am.The boys are said to have pointed the guns at members of the public as they moved…

STONNINGTON: Stabbing at South Yarra

Stonnington Crime Investigation Unit detectives have arrested a man following a stabbing in South Yarra on Wednesday (Feb. 5). It is alleged a 37-year-old man was approached by an unknown man on Chapel St just before 8am and was stabbed. The offender then ran from the scene. The South Yarra man was transported to hospital…

PORT PHILLIP: Death at St Kilda

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in St Kilda on Wednesday night (Feb. 5).Emergency services were called to reports of a house fire on Chapel St about 8.40pm.Responding firefighters located a critically injured man inside the property. He was treated but died at the scene.Exact circumstances surrounding the…

WEST: 7 arrested after pursuit

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Police arrested seven teenagers after a pursuit in Melbourne’s West.Officers spotted an allegedly stolen white Skoda SUV driving at high speeds on Greens Rd in Wyndham Vale just after 11pm Tuesday (Feb. 4).The car was followed by Air Wing and police units on the ground through Werribee, Tarneit and Point Cook, then over the Westgate…

KINGSTON: Armed robberies at Bentleigh, Mentone

Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit have charged a man following alleged armed robberies in Melbourne’s south on Tuesday, February 4.It is alleged two males attended a tobacco shop on Centre Rd in Bentleigh armed with a knife and demanded cigarettes about 9.25am.A male staff member sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital.The two offenders fled…