{"id":2667,"date":"2025-02-19T03:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2025-02-19T03:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:37:36","slug":"west-stolen-car-teens-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/02\/19\/west-stolen-car-teens-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"WEST: Stolen car &#8211; teens arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police have arrested two teenagers after an allegedly stolen car evaded police twice in Melbourne\u2019s western suburbs on Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers spotted a gold Holden Commodore allegedly driving erratically on O\u2019Keefe Crescent just before 1pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police attempted to intercept the vehicle on Young St before it sped off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Commodore, which was allegedly stolen from Ringwood on  Monday (feb. 17), was later seen by police travelling on Maidstone St in Altona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air Wing and police units on the ground followed the Commodore along the Western Hwy through Melton where it allegedly drove towards oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stop sticks were successfully deployed near Coburns Rd in Hopetoun Park before the car came to a stop on Hopetoun Park Rd about 3.30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The occupants, two 16-year-old boys from the Bacchus Marsh area, were arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were taken into custody where they will be interviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested two teenagers after an allegedly stolen car evaded police twice in Melbourne\u2019s western suburbs on Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 18). Officers spotted a gold Holden Commodore allegedly driving erratically on O\u2019Keefe Crescent just before 1pm. Police attempted to intercept the vehicle on Young St before it sped off. The Commodore, which was allegedly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}