AN unlicensed driver had her car impounded after being caught driving down the wrong side of Peninsula Link, 4am, Wednesday 20 September. Members of the Frankston Highway Patrol narrowly avoided a collision with the woman who was driving south in the north-bound lane. They chased her for three kilometres and managed to pull her over at the Cranbourne Rd exit. The 48-year-old, of Somerville, claimed she had “swerved to miss a possum” and was unaware she was in the wrong lane. Senior Sergeant Mick Lamb, of Frankston police, said there was “real potential for a catastrophic outcome” in the incident.…
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TWO female liquor store attendants struggled with two men who were attempting to steal three cartons of beer in Cheltenham, Saturday 23 September. The men entered the Station Rd store, 12.45pm, and selected two Corona and one Victoria Bitter cartons before attempting to walk out without paying. During the struggle two cartons were dropped, breaking some of the stubbies, and the men fled with only one carton. A witness chased them to Stanley Av but one produced a jemmy bar and raised it in a threatening manner. The men are described as: one Indian or Middle Eastern, 170cm, wearing grey…
A WOUNDED ringtail possum was found after four gunshots were heard in Edithvale, 9.45pm, Saturday 23 September. Nearby residents said they heard the small calibre shots – probably from a .22 rifle – and saw lights shining into trees. Police attending found the wounded possum in a laneway off Edithvale Rd and are making inquiries among residents. Detective Senior Sergeant Shane Cashman, of Kingston CIU, described the shooting as “dangerous and horrifically cruel”. Anyone with information should call Kingston detectives 9556 6111. First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 27 September 2017
THE Frankston Blues basketball club has signed on SEABL point guard Andrew Harms for a further three years as head coach of the Blues senior men’s program. Harms, who has had a junior and senior career at the Blues as well as a SEABL career leading the Dandenong Rangers to multiple conference championships, will continue his role he took on mid-season this year. Harms will head into the 2018 season with greater awareness having spent some of last season working with the playing group. “The interim role was a valuable one for me in many respects,” he said. “It provided…
POLICE are working on the theory that a postbox firebug lives in the Heatherhill Rd area of Frankston. Detective Senior Constable Bernard Dowling said the man, in his 60s, with long blond hair and wearing a fur or wool-lined cloak, had dropped burning material – such as firelighters – into at least seven post boxes in the past month. The most recent incidents occurred twice on the one night at the post box on the corner of Lindrum Rd and Hampden Av, Friday 1 September. No letters were burnt because the mail had already been collected. Other incidents have been…