Police News

HORSHAM: Fatal collision involving mobility scooter

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Police are investigating a fatal collision in Horsham on Thursday afternoon (Apr. 10). Emergency services responded after a mobility scooter and a Toyota Prado station wagon collided on Stawell Rd about 4.05pm. The rider of the mobility scooter, a 90-year-old Horsham man, died at the scene. The driver of the Toyota stopped at the scene…

GREATER GEELONG: Child exploitation game – $850,000 penalty

A Geelong man has been ordered to pay the Commonwealth more than $850,000, and had his assets confiscated, after creating and selling an online child exploitation-themed video game which had thousands of paying subscribers. The orders were handed down in the County Court last month, after an investigation by the AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce….

MELBOURNE: Woman assaulted in Flinders St.

Transit Safety Division police are appealing for public assistance to identify a man following an assault in Melbourne’s CBD. It is understood a woman got off a train at Flinders St Railway Station and walked across Flinders St, where a man bumped into her at the intersection of Swanston St about 2pm on December 13….

BAYSIDE: Red-handed at Sandringham

Bayside police have arrested a man following an alleged Burglary in Sandringham on Tuesday evening (Apr. 8). Police responded to reports that a person had allegedly gained access to a closed construction site on Bay Rd about 8.20pm. Swift responding officers arrived at the scene to allegedly find a man holding a hammer inside the…

KINGSTON: Police impersonated at Clayton South

Moorabbin Crime Investigation detectives have charged three people as part of an ongoing investigation into an aggravated burglary in Clayton South. It is alleged that two men attended an address on Bevan Avenue about 11.30pm on March 14. The pair allegedly posed as police officers and when quizzed by an occupant at the property, one…

MITCHELL: Firearm, drugs seizure at Beveridge

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Wallan police charged a man after seizing a firearm and drugs following a search warrant in Beveridge on Sunday (Apr. 6). A warrant was executed at a Hume Fwy address following an ongoing investigation. A number of items were allegedly located during the search including a firearm, ammunition, drugs and suspected stolen jewellery. A 34-year-old…

STONNINGTON: $21,000 clothes burglary at South Yarra

Stonnington Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance following a commercial burglary at a South Yarra clothing store last month. It is believed that three masked offenders pulled up out the front of a Chapel Street clothing store in a black hatchback about 3am on Monday, March 10. The three men exited the…

WHITEHORSE: Death at Burwood

Detectives are investigating the death of a man in Burwood on Tuesday night (Apr. 8). Emergency services were called to reports of a man injured at a property on Winton St about 11pm. Officers arrived on scene to discover a man with injuries consistent with a stabbing. The man died at the scene. Another man…

MILDURA: Aggression causes flight to be axed

A Coomealla man is expected to appear at Wentworth Local Court on Tuesday (Apr. 8), charged over alleged aggressive and antisocial behaviour that resulted in the cancellation of a domestic flight out of Sydney Airport. The man, 32, was seated on an aircraft preparing to fly to Mildura, Victoria, on March 11, when he allegedly…

MELBOURNE: 5.1kg heroin imported, woman jailed

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

A woman has been sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment by the County Court following her third conviction for heroin importation. The Cabramatta (NSW) woman, 75, who had twice previously been convicted of the same offence in NSW, will serve a non-parole period of eight years. She was sentenced on Tuesday (April 1 for importing 5.1kg…