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MELBOURNE: Hotel room burglary

Friday, September 19, 2025

Melbourne Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a 16-year-old boy following a burglary at a hotel in Melbourne earlier this month.Investigators allege false identification was used to gain access to a room in the Wellington Pde complex about 7pm on September 5.Cash and personal items were stolen.Officers arrested a 16-year-old boy from the Geelong area…

SOUTH-EAST: Shots fired at BMW

Southern Metro Region Crime Squad detectives are appealing for public assistance as they investigate a non-fatal shooting earlier this year.It is understood several shots were fired from a vehicle at a stolen grey BMW X5 during the early hours of Monday, May 26.One of the occupants of the BMW, a 19-year-old Clayton South man, was…

WHITEHORSE: Witness appeal after stabbing

Transit Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance following a stabbing in Vermont South.Police have been told a man was approached by an unknown male while standing at a bus-stop on Springvale Rd about 4pm on September 15.The victim was stabbed to the upper body with an edged weapon.The victim, a 37-year-old man,…

PORT PHILLIP: Blitz on anti-social behaviour

Police have arrested almost 30 people and laid just shy of 70 charges in a week-long blitz targeting antisocial behaviour in St Kilda, South Melbourne and Port Melbourne.Over a five-day period South Melbourne and St Kilda Uniform Police, as well as the Port Phillip Neighbourhood Policing Unit:• Arrested 27 people• Executed 44 warrants• Laid 68…

MELTON: 7 charged over Cobblebank deaths

Homicide Squad detectives have charged seven people as part of their investigation into the deaths of two children in Cobblebank earlier this month.Warrants were executed from 6am on Friday (Sep. 19) with assistance from VIPER Taskforce and local police at properties in Melton South, Thornhill Park, Caroline Springs, Sunbury, Wollert, Hillside and Sydenham (2).A 19-year-old…

CAMPASPE: Death at Rushworth

Emergency services responded to a crash in Rushworth on Friday evening (Sep. 19).It is believed a motorcyclist was traveling on Girgarre-Rushworth Rd around 7.30pm.The motorcycle veered off the road and struck a tree.CPR was commenced by passersby but male rider died at the scene.Exact circumstances of the crash are being investigated.

HUME: Cocaine bust at Kalkallo

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Detectives from the Major Drug Squad have charged two men and seized 40kg of cocaine which was located inside a vehicle being driven back from the NSW border.A vehicle was intercepted by police on the Hume Hwy in Kalkallo at 6.20am on Tuesday morning (Sep. 16).A search of the vehicle uncovered 40kg of a substance…

KINGSTON: Public toilet incident at Carrum

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following an armed robbery and assault in Carrum on September 4.It is alleged a 46-year-old man parked his vehicle in the vicinity of a football club on Dyson Rd in Carrum on around 1pm.He entered a toilet block to use the facilities when he heard a…

WEST: Fires linked to corruption probe

Detectives from Taskforce Hawk have released CCTV footage as part of their investigation into two fires earlier this year in Maribyrnong and Derrimut.The first fire occurred outside a residential property on Scenic Drive, Maribyrnong, on April 6.Two vehicles at the address were set alight shortly after 1.30am.The CCTV shows two offenders dousing the vehicles in…

MARIBYRNONG: Gun, cash seized

Police located a loaded firearm and $2000 cash after a man fled from police early last Tuesday morning (Sep. 16).A speeding Mercedes drew the attention of detectives when they came across it travelling along the Nepean Hwy at Brighton East about 12.15am.Officers attempted to intercept the allegedly stolen vehicle however the driver refused to pull…