A SUPERMARKET attendant had soft drink poured on her and a bottle thrown at her head during a shoplifting incident in Mentone, 7.35pm, Monday 11 September. Police said five teenagers – three females and two males – entered the Woolworth’s store and stole three energy drinks which they hid in the girls’ handbags. At the checkout, the attendant asked them to open their handbags while another customer sided with her. The girls pushed past them and all five let fly with a barrage of abuse, taunting both the attendant and the customer. The attendant followed them outside but, when she…
Author: Bayside News
A PARKDALE resident performed a citizen’s arrest after she arrived home to see a woman hiding among bushes near her driveway and her car door and hatch open, 7.30pm, Sunday 17 September. The Roberts St woman grappled with the offender, 27, of no fixed address, and held her until police arrived. The woman was charged over previous incidents at Dandenong and Chelsea Heights, including four counts of theft, three theft of motor cars, two burglaries and theft from a motor car. She was also charged with handling stolen goods and unlicensed driving. The woman allegedly used one of the stolen…
THE golden age of cinema and radio is making its return in a production of a classic radio play hitting the stage at Kingston City Hall. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is set in the 19th century St Kilda mansion of the exclusive Melbourne Club, the criminal haunts of Little Bourke St and a horse drawn hansom cab. Kingston City organist Scott Harrison will play City Hall’s Wurlitzer theatre organ before Lux Radio Theatre’s acclaimed production of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. Featuring acclaimed actors James Wright, Simon Russell (We Will Rock You), Lucy Gransbury (Godspell) and directed…
Frankston Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team detectives are investigating a wilful an obscene exposure in Frankston earlier this month. Investigators have been told that a 40-year-old Frankston woman was collecting mail from a letterbox when she was approached by a man in Fairway St about 6.30pm on 11 September. The man exposed his penis then offered the woman $50 to play with it. Detectives believe the same man may be responsible for up to 13 other incidents of wilful and obscene exposure in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula area dating as far back as 2013. On previous occasions…
THE works of US composers George and Ira Gershwin will get a working over from jazz singer Anita Harris and her band when she takes to the stage at Frankston Bowling Club on September 24. Harris, a popular performer at jazz festivals around Victoria and beyond, has called her program Gershwing, which gives an indication of the direction she will take. Since her first gig in 1993, Harris has delighted audiences at restaurants, wineries, jazz clubs – and festivals. Critics have called her “one of those very rare vocal stylists” and enthused that “she has a strong fluid contralto which…