AN elderly man was scammed of $4800 by a conman falsely claiming to be an Optus representative, 11am, Friday 26 May. The victim, a resident of a retirement village in McLeod Rd, Patterson Lakes, received a phone call from a man possibly with a Canadian accent claiming he was from Optus and that the company had mistakenly paid $2500 into his account. The victim was instructed to buy that amount of Apple iTunes vouchers from the Patterson Lakes Coles and Woolworths stores, which he did. The victim was then told to scan the rear of the vouchers, showing the bar…
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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
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…
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…
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…