Author: Bayside News

KINGSTON detectives raided properties in Ascot Vale and Flemington this week and recovered a large quantity of property stolen during a burglary at Rennison St, Parkdale, Tuesday 30 May. The victim identified his bike for sale on online and police identified a suspect. Search warrants were executed Monday for this burglary and three others in the Kingston police area. A man, 25, has been bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, 22 June, and a second offender is being sought by police. First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 7 June 2017

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A MAN attempting to buy drugs from his dealer had a rifle pointed at him in the rear car park of Coles’ Mentone, 5.15pm, Friday 2 June. The victim, 26, of Mentone, had arranged to meet the dealer who arrived in a silver Holden Astra with two other men. The dealer pointed a sawn-off rifle at the victim while a man in the back seat demanded he empty his pockets. The victim handed over his mobile phone, $260 cash and a sheath knife and believes a shot was fired after he handed over the items. The offenders fled towards Florence…

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A POLICE officer drew her handgun and shouted “I am police” to scare off three thugs who attempted to carjack her unmarked police car outside Bonbeach basketball complex, 9.20pm, Sunday 4 June. The leading senior constable in plain clothes and accompanied by a clinician, was at the stadium in Cannes Avenue to do a lighting audit when three large men carrying iron bars burst from the bushes and started clubbing the car. One opened the driver’s side door and attempted to hop in and steal the car, which rolled forward into a tree. The policewoman, still inside the vehicle, managed…

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Police are investigating a number of reports of suspicious activity in the Mentone area this month. Investigators have been told a girl was walking along Bourke Street on her way to school on 1 June when a man in a red sedan pulled up beside her about 8.35am. The man, who was wearing a grey hooded jumper, wound down the window and told the girl he was a friend of her mother’s and to get into the car. The girl did not recognise the man and instead ran across the road to a park. The man performed a U-turn but…

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Frankston police pulled over a vehicle with a somewhat fishy looking number plate in Carrum Downs Sunday (4 June) afternoon. The Holden Commodore station wagon was intercepted on Ballarto Road at 4.30pm. The car was displaying number plates written on cardboard with black marker that read ‘NOIDER” The 37-year-old Frankston man was found to be unlicensed and the car unregistered. His car, along with his handmade plates, were impounded and he will be charged on summons for unlicensed driving, unregistered vehicle, breaching an Interlock condition and driving an unroadworthy vehicle. Source: Victoria Police News – Sunday 4 June 2017

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