A PATTERSON Lakes man was punched to the back of the head during a parking dispute, 10.30am, Sunday 2 April. The man told Chelsea police he parked his car in a loading zone at Harbour Plaza shopping centre, Thompson Rd. When he returned he found another car parked hard up against his car, preventing him opening the door. When that driver – an elderly man – returned, the man said he began talking to him. Police said another man, not connected to either man, “had a crack” at the victim before punching him in the back of the head. The…
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A SEAFORD woman allegedly attempted to use stolen credit cards to pay for 50 litres of petrol and various items at an Aspendale Gardens service station. All were declined. When the attendant requested she produce her driver’s licence and fill out a form, the woman allegedly handed him a licence with a photograph of an Asian woman, even though she is Caucasian and blonde. The woman, 31, then left the store and drove off with another woman in what was later found to be a stolen car. Police traced the licence to a staff member at Karingal Hub who said…
AUTUMN darkness may be falling but the Mentone-Mordialloc Art Group is brightening up its walls at the Mentone Activity Centre. The group’s Autumn Members Exhibition is being held 6-13 April, 10am-4pm daily and until 6pm on Friday 7 April. The not-for-profit organisation offers, managed by volunteers, art lessons and classes to all ages and abilities from teens to retirees. The art group was formed in 1956 and moved to its premises at Mentone Activity Hub, 29 Venice St, Mentone in April last year from Old Granary Lane. See mentone-mordiallocartgroup.org.au or call 9584 6376 for further information. First published in the…
ONE of a group of intoxicated men who allegedly caused trouble inside a Chelsea Heights McDonald’s and then loitered outside, vandalising trees and smashing windows at a Wells Rd unit block and a nearby gymnasium, has been arrested. The incidents occurred on Thursday 14 July last year but are only now coming to court. Witnesses said the offender threw frozen Coke over a customer and then followed him out to the restaurant car park, damaging his car and trying to fight him. He was one of four men who allegedly snapped four mature trees at their trunks and used star…
AN Aspendale man being chase near Peninsula Link allegedly punched and kicked a police dog before it bit him on the right shoulder and face. The man, 26, appeared at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Monday (3 April) on 30 charges: four of aggravated burglary, three of theft of a motor car, theft, handling stolen property, evading police and resisting arrest after a series of weekend incidents. Another charge relates to aggravated cruelty to an animal – the police dog. The man was remanded to reappear at the same court on Tuesday 9 May. Police allege the man entered a Marvin…