SOMERVILLE Highway Patrol caught five people in Frankston overnight on Tuesday 12 March driving with drugs in their system. A 30-year-old woman was pulled over on Skye Road at little before 11pm and tested positive for methamphetamine. Police said she was also a learner driver driving unaccompanied and without her L plates. Just after midnight, a 39-year-old man also tested positive for meth at Excelsior Drive, Frankston North. Half an hour later a 24-year-old man tested positive to methamphetamine in Klauer Street Seaford. The man’s license was found to be suspended and his vehicle was impounded. At 3.07 am a…
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A 74-YEAR-old man has been charged with historical sexual offences, with one of his alleged offences occurring at a hospital in Frankston. It is alleged he committed a series of assaults across a Frankston hospital, a Clayton university, a Glen Waverley Street, and an Altona home between 2013 and 2016. On 15 March Westgate Sexual Offence and Child Abuse investigation team detectives charged him on summons with sexual offences including multiple counts of sexual, indecent and common law assaults. He will appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 3 May. First published in the Frankston Times – 18 March 2019
A 24 YEAR old Frankston man was arrested in Hastings on 11 March after a series of alleged car thefts. Frankston Crime Investigation Unit Detective Sergeant Luke Holmes said the man had been “prolific in his offending in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula area.” It is alleged that the man would meet up with people looking to sell their cars on the website Gumtree, and ask to test drive their cars. The man would then drive off. Police allege his offences occurred in the Frankston, Seaford, and Hastings areas between 19 February and 11 March. The man allegedly would use…
A MAN found asleep at the wheel on Cranbourne Road near the Frankston Freeway at 5pm, 12 March has had his car impounded and been charged with multiple drink driving offences. The 35-year-old Langwarrin man was allegedly driving with a suspended license. He was taken by police to Frankston Police Station where he returned a breath test reading of 0.177. He will face the Frankston Magistrates’ Court at a later date. First published in the Frankston Times – 18 March 2019
LABOR candidate for Flinders, Joshua Sinclair, has moved quickly to climb aboard the electrification of the rail line to Baxter project. With the results of a $3 million federal government-financed business case due soon, Mr Sinclair last week “reaffirmed that a Shorten Labor government will move quickly to deliver the much-needed Frankston to Baxter rail upgrade”. “A federal Labor government will electrify and duplicate the track [from Frankston] to Baxter, giving commuters better access to high quality public transport and park-and-ride options,” he said. “Shadow Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese said the project was part of Labor’s commitment to increase public…