CAR parts valued at $13,000 were stolen from a vehicle restoration factory in Mordialloc overnight Thursday last week. The business, Muscle Cars, of Japaddy St, was the victim of an arson attack in October last year and is currently unoccupied, although cars are sometimes stored there. Police said offenders entered through a gap in the fence and then forced a door in the office area after midnight, Thursday 11 August. They stole two superchargers valued at $7000, the brakes of a burnt-out 1967 Mustang valued at $5000 and four Go Jacks valued at $1000. First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc…
Author: Bayside News
BOUNDARIES will be put in place to limit advertising around sports field boundaries at Kingston reserves. Under new guidelines adopted by Kingston Council advertising signs are allowed on scoreboards, coaches’ boxes and fences but not on toilet blocks. Club identification signs are allowed on pavilions and a limited number of free-standing signs will be allowed to promote club membership drives and events. Kingston mayor Cr Tamsin Bearsley said the Guidelines for Advertising and Promotional Signs on Council Sporting Reserves “struck a fine balance between meeting the needs of local sports clubs and responding to resident concerns over the growing amount…
SIX artists and organisations will share in $22,000 to help develop a range of original works including a community art day, a new mural for Clarinda Community Centre, and a photography book documenting local industrial estates thanks to the annual Kingston Arts Grants. Mayor Cr Tamsin Bearsley said the grants helped support community artists and arts organisations display innovative and creative arts. “We’re proud to support such an interesting and diverse group of grassroots community artists and I’m looking forward to seeing their projects in action.” Grants are provided in four categories: community grants (up to $3000), youth arts internship…
Caulfield Divisional Response Unit (DRU) has disrupted a significant southern suburbs organised crime syndicate following a 10 month investigation targeting the trafficking and distribution of methamphetamine. Investigators executed simultaneous search warrants at 13 properties this morning in Chelsea, Aspendale, Hampton Park, Springvale South, Notting Hill, Dandenong, Cheltenham, Moorabbin, Seaford, Frankston, Mordialloc and Braeside (x2). The DRU, with the assistance of Moorabbin, Mordialloc, Cheltenham, Chelsea and Bayside local police, Kingston and Bayside Crime Investigation Unit detectives and specialist units including the Dog Squad and Divisional Tasking Unit, made 14 arrests. Police remain at a number of properties including a suspected clandestine…
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance following a two night burglary spree in Frankston and surrounding suburbs last week. A number of businesses were targeted with cigarettes, cash, lottery scratchies and jewellery stolen during the raids. The first break-in occurred about 3.20am on Tuesday 9 August at a service station on Baxter-Tooraddin Rd. Cigarettes, cash and food were stolen by the offenders before they drove to a service station on Frankston-Flinders Rd in Somerville about 40 minutes later. They caused damage to an automatic teller machine before leaving empty handed and driving to a newsagent on…