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HUME: $200,000 haul nabbed at Broadmeadows

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Hume Crime Investigation Unit detectives have arrested a man after a trailer loaded with more than $200,000 in aluminium was stolen from a Campbellfield warehouse.It is alleged the 45-foot flatbed trailer, carrying large aluminium poles, was stolen from outside the Sydney Rd business about 5am on Monday, June 16.Police were called the following day when…

NORTH-WEST: 33 arrests in North-West blitz

More than 30 dangerous road users and car thieves were arrested during a four-night operation in Brimbank.The co-ordinated operation saw police disrupt a local hoon meet in Keilor Park, arrest an alleged drug trafficker who riding at up to 200-kmh on a major freeway, and stopping a machete wielding car thief.Operation Ghost is a regular…

MORNINGTON PENINSULA: 25 business break-ins

There have 25 business break-ins on the Mornington Peninsula, Nepean MLA Sam Groth (pictured) has told Parliament.“My question is to the Minister for Police. In the past 12 months Nepean locals report that close to 25 businesses have been broken into, with more than 10 in Dromana alone,” Mr Groth said.“Over recent months a local…

SOUTH-EAST: 3 teens evade Police

Police have charged three teenagers alleged to have evaded police through the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne last Tuesday morning (June 17).The trio was first spotted by Operation Trinity units allegedly driving a vehicle bearing stolen registration plates, in Mons Parade Noble Park about 12.45am.Police attempted to intercept the Mazda BT50 utility before it allegedly sped…

GREATER DANDENONG: Fatal motorcycle crash

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives are investigating a fatal collision involving multiple motorcycles in Dandenong South on Saturday evening, June 14.Emergency services were called to the South Gippsland Fwy scene following reports four motorcycle riders had been involved in a collision, about 7.15pm.One of the riders, a male believed aged in his 20s, died at…

GREATER DANDENONG: Assault and stabbing

Greater Dandenong Crime Investigation Unit detectives have arrested the second boy wanted following an assault and stabbing in Melbourne’s south on Friday evening.The 16-year-old, who has now been interviewed and charged in relation to the incidents in Keysborough and Dingley Village, handed himself into police on Saturday.The Kingston teen has been charged with armed robbery,…

KNOX: Drug seizure at Bayswater

Friday, June 13, 2025

Police have seized approximately $1.5 million worth of cannabis from an industrial area in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs as part of an ongoing investigation into commercial drug trafficking.Detectives from Croydon Divisional Response Unit executed two search warrants at two factory sites in the Bayswater area on Thursday (June 12).Upon entering the adjoining factories, detectives uncovered two…

STONNINGTON: Fatality at Malvern

Prahran Highway Patrol officers are investigating a collision in Malvern on Thursday night (June 12.It is understood a car struck a pedestrian on Malvern Rd, near the intersection of Meredith St, about 6pm.The pedestrian, a 22-year-old Melbourne woman, was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. She died in hospital on Friday morning.The male driver of…

BRIMBANK: New charges for Sunshine North man

A Melbourne man with alleged links to international organised crime has been charged over his alleged involvement in a plot to import 70kg of cocaine.The man, 32, from Sunshine North, is one of two brothers who were charged in over their alleged links to a ‘rip crew’ that was accused of breaking into a shipping…

CASEY: Armed robbery arrest

Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a woman following an armed robbery in Hampton Park.Investigators allege that a man and woman approached a group of 15-year-old boys as they were leaving a park on Bluff Rd on Saturday, May 10, about 3.50pm.The teens were carrying a football when it is alleged the woman produced…