Carrum Downs uniform members will be forced to make room in the property office after executing a search warrant in Carrum Downs late this morning. More than 300 grams of methamphetamine, a conducted energy device, more than $15,000 and small amounts of other drugs suspected to be cocaine, heroin and cannabis were allegedly found at the Hillview Drive house. A brand new Holden SSV utility was also seized as part of the operation and it will be alleged to have been obtained by proceeds of crime. A 24-year-old Carrum Downs man was arrested at the address and he is currently…
Author: Bayside News
A Carrum Downs man has been charged by Narre Warren police following an incident on the Monash Freeway in Endeavour Hills last Thursday. Police received numerous reports of a silver Toyota Rukus allegedly driving erratically outbound on the freeway near Heatherton Road around 3.15pm. It is believed the offending vehicle then drove in front of the Lexus and stopped on the freeway. The male driver allegedly got out of the vehicle, armed himself with what is believed to be a hammer and struck the Lexus. Investigators executed a warrant at a Mc Cormicks Road address in Carrum Downs about 4am and…
A search is underway for a 48-year-old Frankston North woman who has been missing for two weeks. Karen Rae has not been seen since leaving her home address in Adib Court on Wednesday 15 April about 7pm. Investigators have been told that Karen left home in the company of a man named Tony Smith. Police believe the pair drove away from Karen’s home in a black Commodore station wagon. Karen has not made contact with any of her friends or family since that time. Investigators have released an image of Karen in the hope that someone may have information on…
IN 1915, Inuk Pavia Janssen, a Scandinavian from Greenland who had lived and worked in Australia as a miner in Ballarat and Kalgoorlie before settling in Mentone, was waiting for news of his sons. Carl Wilhelm Janssen and Ernek Valdemar Janssen had enlisted just days after the war broke out. It was Ernek, the younger brother who joined first. He was 23 years old. Older brother Carl, who was 27 and an engraver for The Argus, took only a few days longer to be convinced to go. Both brothers lived and worked in Prahran, but both put their family home,…
John Allnutt the eldest son of Josephine and George Allnutt lived his early life on a market garden in Centre Dandenong Road Cheltenham. The house Trianon is still standing on the corner of Gardenia Crescent and Centre Dandenong Road. John attend the Cheltenham State School but had to leave school prematurely because his father became seriously ill and could not work. There were vegetables ready for market and the family needed the money so John being the eldest son became the ‘market man’ and drove the horse and lorry loaded with vegetables to the Victoria Market and took over the…