21 PEOPLE were arrested in Frankston last Thursday during a police operation. Police had expanded powers to search for weapons in the Frankston area last week. It sent officers out to Frankston Railway Station on 10 July to conduct searches. Across eight hours police wand-searched 370 people. 21 people were arrested – among them were two Frankston women, aged 35 and 26, who were allegedly carrying knives.Other arrests included a 30-year-old Frankston woman who was charged with possessing GHB and an allegedly stolen credit card, a 26-year-old Frankston man who was charged with carrying methylamphetamine, a 20-year-old Frankton woman who…
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Police have dismantled a large cannabis crop house at a home in Chelsea, following an investigation into an alleged organised crime syndicate. The Caulfield Divisional Response Unit executed a search warrant at the home on Newington Parade at 7.30am on Wednesday 8 July. It will be alleged the sophisticated set up spanned the entirety of the property – eight rooms in total – with investigators seizing more than 200 cannabis plants of varying maturity. The commercial quantity of the plants has an estimated potential street value of approximately $1.5 million. A 22-year-old man from Caroline Springs was arrested at the…
A DELEGATION of Frankston councillors has returned from a trip to Canberra. The mayor Cr Kris Bolam, Cr Sue Baker, and Cr Brad Hill attended the 2025 Australian Local Government Association National General Assembly. Frankston Council raised four successful motions at the assembly: Increased attention on blockchain and cryptocurrency in local government, compensation for councils hosting citizenship ceremonies, support for the Federal Government’s Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024, and decentralisation of federal government agencies and jobs to outer metropolitan and regional areas.Frankston District Basketball Association CEO Wayne Holdsworth, who was named Frankston’s 2025 Citizen of the…
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives charged two men and a woman after they allegedly located drugs and weapons in Frankston yesterday. Officers were called to check a suspicious vehicle in an isolated area of Overport Park on 8 July about 6.50am. It is understood police found a man inside the vehicle and conducted a search, allegedly locating a 3D printed machine gun, taser and a drone. The 49-year-old Frankston man was arrested and taken into custody. Detectives subsequently conducted a search at a property in Frankston and allegedly located a revolver and ammunition, along with a quantity of drugs including…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough WHEN Horace Sharp, Hannah Nolan and Vincent Caffra, employees at the Pier Hotel, Frankston, returned to their rooms late on Saturday night last they found them in disorder and several articles of their property missing.About 9.30 that evening, George Davies, painter, had occasion to go to Caffra’s room in the staff’s quarters of the hotel.He was surprised to find it securely locked and to see, when he finally gained admittance, a strange young man asleep on the bed.The young man, Harry Sandforth, a visitor from Cheltenham, explained when he awoke that he had been wandering around…