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Friday, September 18, 2026
Melbourne Crime Investigation Unit detectives have arrested five people following a series of ram raids at luxury stores in Melbourne’s CBD. Detectives executed multiple search warrants at six properties and storage units in Cranbourne, Dandenong and Springvale on tuesday (Apr. 22). Investigators located and seized a number of luxury handbags, stolen vehicles, drugs and assorted…
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Police are investigating a fatal collision in Little Desert. Emergency services were called to reports a car collided with a truck on Nhill-Harrow Road, just after 2pm on Tuesday (Apr. 22). The driver and sole occupant of the car died at the scene. The driver of the truck, a 49-year-old Nhill man was uninjured and…
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Four people have been arrested after multiple police units followed them from Pakenham to Elwood in an allegedly stolen vehicle overnight. Officers patrolling in Pakenham spotted the allegedly stolen silver Holden Astra on Bald Hill Rd, near the railway station, just after midnight. The Astra was followed along the Monash Freeway at alleged high speeds….
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Police have arrested a man following an alleged assault in Barwon Heads on Saturday night (Apr. 19). It is alleged the woman was injured during a physical altercation on outside a venue on Bridge Rd just before 11pm. A 45-year-old woman was airlifted to hospital, where she remains in a serious condition. A 55-year-old Cremorne…
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Police are investigating after two people died in a collision at Thomastown on Sunday afternoon (Apr. 20), Emergency services were called to reports a motorbike and car had collided on High St about 12.50pm. The motorbike rider and their pillion passenger died at the scene. The occupants of the car did not sustain any serious…
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Homicide Squad detectives are investigating following a fatal stabbing in Prahran on Sunday morning (Apr. 20). Emergency services were called to reports a man had been stabbed during an altercation on Chapel St on about 1.30am. The victim, believed to be a man in his 20’s, was taken to hospital where he later died. At…
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A 6-year-old boy who went missing from an Olinda play space has been reunited with his family after spending the night lost in the Dandenong Ranges. The Forest Hill boy, who has autism and is non-verbal, was at a family gathering celebrating Easter at the Olinda Monbulk Road when he wandered off about 4pm Friday…
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A man has died in hospital following a collision in Greenvale. Emergency services were called after a Kia Cerato and a Honda CRV collided on Somerton Rd about 11.50pm on Friday, March 21. It is understood the Kia left the road and rolled. The female driver of the Honda suffered minor injuries and was taken…
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Melton Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following an alleged aggravated burglary where a man was threatened with a firearm in Hillside. It is alleged five male offenders approached a house on Antonietta S just after 2am on December 30. Three occupants, a 50-year-old man, a 49-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy were…
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Crime is so bad on Clyde streets that families and sending out their own fathers, driving around in cars, to create security on the streets, says Berwick MLA Brad Battin (pictured).“Crime in this state has been rewarded under this government for far too long, and the person that weakened the bail laws has now been…
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