Police News

LATROBE: Death at Mount Tassie

Friday, April 25, 2025

A motorcycle rider died following a collision with an oncoming vehicle in Mount Tassie last Thursday afternoon (Apr. 24).Emergency services were called after the rider, who was travelling north-west along the Traralgon-Balook Rd, crashed into a utility about 4.45pm.The rider died at the scene. The driver and sole occupant of the Isuzu utility was not…

MELBOURNE: Visa breaches alleged

An Iraq-born man is expected to appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday (Apr. 23) charged with allegedly failing to maintain his electronic monitoring device in accordance with his visa conditions.The Australian Federal Police charged the man, 50, after locating him in Melbourne.It will be alleged the man breached the conditions of his Commonwealth visa…

GREATER SHEPPARTON: Fatal collision

Police are investigating a fatal collision in Shepparton.It is understood a car collided with a pedestrian on Wyndham St about 11pm Thursday (Apr. 24). The male pedestrian died at the scene.The male driver of the vehicle was not injured and stopped at the scene.

WEST: Items seized by Police

Detectives from the VIPER Taskforce have charged two men and seized luxury vehicles, watches and cash as part of an investigation into drug trafficking in the Sunshine and Footscray areas.With assistance from the Public Order Response Team, Clandestine Laboratory Squad, Dog Squad and the Australian Federal Police’s Geomatics Team, two search warrants were executed at…

COLAC-OTWAY: Gang involved in clandestine lab

Detectives from the Clandestine Laboratory Squad charged two men, one a former patched member of the Hells Angels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, and located a clandestine laboratory in Colac.With assistance from the Geelong Divisional Response Unit, Colac Uniform members, Disaster Victim Identification team (specially trained members in dismantling a clan lab) and a forensic chemist, warrants…

NORTH-WEST: Arrests over Brooklyn extortion

Detectives from Taskforce Lunar have charged two men as part of their investigation into the alleged extortion of the owner of a Braybrook tobacco store earlier this year.Police executed two warrants at properties in Port Melbourne and Broadmead-ows last Thursday morning (Apr. 24), arresting a 26-year-old Port Melbourne man and a 21-year-old Broadmeadows man.The pair…

PORT PHILLIP: 94 drug arrests at St Kilda

Thursday, April 24, 2025

New crime data reveals Victoria Police arrested almost 100 people for drug offending in St Kilda last year, as detectives continue to target traffickers peddling illicit substances.In 2024, St Kilda police arrested 94 people allegedly involved in drug crime a total of 96 times – equivalent to around two people each week.These arrests often included…

MILDURA: $1m meth seized

Police have dismantled an alleged drug trafficking syndicate operating out of Mildura, seizing more than $1 million worth of methylamphetamine.Four people were arrested, including a patched member of the Rebels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, following a series of coordinated warrants in Mildura.Police intercepted a vehicle in Red Cliffs shortly before 12 Noon on Tuesday (Apr. 22).A…

YARRA: Critical injury after Fitzroy collision

Melbourne Highway Patrol officers are investigating after a car struck a pedestrian in Fitzroy on Wednesday afternoon (Apr. 23). It is understood the male pedestrian was struck by a white Ford Transit on Victoria Pde between Napier St and George St about 3.25pm. The pedestrian, a 21-year-old man, was taken to hospital with critical life-threatening…

CORANGAMITE: Fatal collision at Terang

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Police are investigating a fatal collision in Terang on Tuesday night (Apr. 22). Emergency services were called to reports an e-scooter and car had collided on Lyons St about 6.40pm. The teenage e-scooter rider was airlifted to hospital and later died. The male driver of the Ford utility was not injured and stopped at the…