A MAN who attempted to steal money from an ATM in Cheltenham earlier this month is being sought by police. The man parked his burgundy 2004 Grand Vitara XL7 wagon with no plates in front of a Bernard St supermarket about 3.30am. He jemmied open the front door and then used an angle grinder to break into the ATM, which was inside the front door. The man fled empty-handed when police arrived. He is described as in his 40s wearing shorts, a yellow fluoro top and a camouflage pattern floppy hat. Police have released CCTV footage of a man they…
Author: Bayside News
POSSIBLY 100 members’ golf bags were rifled by thieves who broke into the Kingswood Golf Club, overnight, Tuesday 21 February. Two thieves are seen on CCTV breaking through two external doors into the buggy room and ladies’ locker rooms where they forced several locker doors but left many untouched. Club officials said they would not know what was taken from bags or lockers until members checked their belongings. The thieves wearing black balaclavas and gloves spent more than an hour on the club’s Centre Dandenong Rd premises after the alarm sounding at 3.10am was ignored as a false alarm. Anyone…
BURGLARS stole more than $25,000 in cash and vehicle parts, as well as a bicycle, phones, computer equipment – and even a $4000 Johnny Walker whisky collection – from a Mordialloc service centre, overnight Monday 27 February. They smashed a glass door to the front office to enter the Lower Dandenong Rd building, 2.30am, where they ransacked offices and tried to start an Audi sedan parked in front of the workshop. Unable to move it they took the keys to a Toyota Corolla and drove off. Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000. First published in…
POLICE raids on properties in Patterson Lakes and Carrum Downs last week allegedly found more than 120 cannabis plants and elaborate hydroponic set ups – and even a specially insulated roof to prevent heat being detected by police helicopters. The raids carried out at 7.30am, Tuesday 21 February, were part of police operation called Rebuker 16. A Colac Ct property was allegedly found to house about 90 cannabis plants and two fully functional hydro units with lamps in two rear bedrooms. At the rear was a garage also set up as a hydro unit allegedly holding 10 more fully grown…
PARKDALE Secondary College teacher Natalie Baker will be one of five teachers who will accompany Victorian school students on a study tour to Canberra to learn about sacrifices made by veterans during World War II. Hundreds of applicants applied to be a chaperone teacher for the Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize Study Tour to include 42 students from state schools. Ms Baker has taught at Parkdale Secondary for the past 12 years. An overseas tour group will follow in the footsteps of World War II veterans and will visit Darwin and Singapore to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombing…