On the 06-11-14 at around 8.20 pm a male committed an armed robbery at a fast food outlet on McDonald Street in Morwell. A forty-year-old male was soon after arrested and charged by La Trobe CIU detectives. If you have been a victim of crime while at work or elsewhere call 1800 000 055 or…
DetailsOn the 04-11-14 just after 10.00 pm a male offender threatened a twenty-one-year-old male with a knife demanding money at the Eltham Railway Station. The victim alerted Transit PSOs who contacted the police. A twenty-one-year-old Eltham North man was soon arrested in the railway car park by Victoria Transit Police with the aid of the…
DetailsOn Monday the 15-09-14 at around 9.15 am a twenty-six-year-old male was approached by three teenagers, a boy aged fifteen years, and two girls aged fifteen and seventeen years, and threatened with a weapon on the grounds of La Trobe University. A passerby witnessed the incident and came to the victim’s aid allowing him to…
DetailsOn the 01-09-14 at around 1.20 am two armed male offenders entered the bottle shop on Bedford Road in Ringwood and demanded cash. A scuffle then ensued between the male bottle shop attendant and the two assailants during which the attendant sustained a laceration to his hand. The offenders then stole cash and fled in…
DetailsOn the 03-09-14 just before 5.00 pm a male offender entered the Gaming Venue on Gourlay Road in Hillside armed with a knife. The offender threatened staff with the weapon before stealing cash and fleeing in a white or silver Nissan Navara dual cab with a canopy. The offender is believed to be Caucasian, approximately…
DetailsOn Friday the 29th August 2014 at around 1.45 am a male offender entered a service station on the South Gippsland Highway in Dandenong South and attempted to buy a packet of chewing gum. As he was doing so he produced a knife and demanded that the shop assistant hand over cash. The shop assistant…
DetailsOn Sunday the 25-08-14 at around 10.25 pm two armed offenders robbed an adult entertainment store on Cheltenham Road in Dandenong stealing cash and a mobile phone before fleeing on foot. Dog Squad members quickly attended the scene and soon arrested a twenty-year-old male from Mentone and a thirty-three-year-old male from Dandenong. The offenders with…
DetailsOn the 20-08-14 at around 1.15 am two men entered a hotel on Keilor Road in Essendon armed with a firearm and a knife. The offenders threatened staff before fleeing with cash. Police has since arrested four men at a motel on Sydney Road in Coburg. Two of the offenders, a twenty-year-old from Broadmeadows and…
DetailsOn the 07-08-14 at around 7.20 pm a male wearing a black balaclava and armed with a firearm entered the Gaming Venue on Main Road in Eltham and approached the gaming attendant. The assailant jumped the counter demanding cash and then assaulted the staff member before stealing a substantial amount of cash and fleeing through…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 13-08-14 a male and a female entered a chemist store on Hampstead Road in Maidstone threatening a female staff member with a knife and dragging her to the register and forcing her to open it. The offenders stole cash and aftershave before fleeing the chemist shop on foot. The offenders were both…
DetailsOn the 15-08-14 at around 7.20 am a male offender armed with a knife entered the milk bar on Albert Street in Sebastopol and was found by the mild bar owner behind the counter. The offender stole cigarettes before fleeing and is described as being Caucasian in appearance, 180 cm tall and with a thin…
DetailsIn the past three months the following gaming venues have been the target of armed robberies: 11/08/14 – Maribyrnong Rodd in Moonee Ponds 01/08/14 – Sydney Road in Fawkner 26/07/14 – Sydney Road in Fawkner 22/07/14 – Sunshine Avenue in Kealba 14/07/14 – Sunshine Avenue in Kealba 17/06/14 – Mahoneys Road in Thomastown 08/06/14 –…
DetailsOn the 21 July 2014 at around 9.50 am a male entered a milk bar on Hampshire Road in Sunshine and demanded cash from the milk bar owner. Initially the owner refused and then the offender produced a large carving knife at which time the victim opened the till and the offender grabbed a quantity…
DetailsOn Sunday the 3rd August 2014 at around 10.30 pm a male offender armed with a knife and wearing a balaclava and gloves entered the service station at the corner of Station Street and the Murray Valley Highway in Cobram and demanded cash from the female shop assistant. The female victim handed over cash and…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 22-07-14 at around 2.30 am two men armed with a firearm and a large knife entered the Main Road East Hotel in Kealba demanding cash from the employees. An employee handed over an amount of cash and the offenders then fled from the hotel. Police are appealing for public assistance following an…
DetailsOn Friday the 18-07-14 at around 4.50 am a male in his thirties entered a Convenience Store on Elizabeth Street in the Melbourne CBD and picked up a pair of scissors and threatened the shop assistant demanding cash and cigarettes. The shop assistant handed over a packet of cigarettes and the offender attempted to open…
DetailsOn the 02-06-14 at around 6.30 pm four male offenders arrived at a Gaming Venue in Epping in a Holden sedan motor vehicle. The four quickly entered the venue threatening staff and patrons before entering the cashier’s area. The offenders then threatened a staff member with a knife forcing her to hand over cash. The…
DetailsOn the 01-06-14 at around 11.40 am a male offender wearing a black balaclava and a black jumper entered a convenience store on Eagle Drive in Pakenham and threatened the male shop assistant with a gun demanding cash. The assistant handed over cash and the offender then fled on a motor bike. Cardinia CIU detectives are…
DetailsFrankston police have charged and arrested a twenty-three-year-old male following three separate armed robberies at service stations in Frankston on the 30th March, 4th April and 9th April 2014. On then 30th March the offender robbed the service stations on the Nepean Highway in Frankston, on the 4th April he robbed the service station on…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 09-04-14 at around 9.50 pm a male offender entered the service station on Nepean Highway in Frankston carrying a knife. The shop assist quickly fled inside a secure room while the offender stole cash and then fled north along the Nepean Highway. The offender was described as being Caucasian, aged in his…
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