Victorian Crime Statistics for the 12 months from March 2014 to March 2013: The crime rate across Victoria increased by 5% with total number of offences up by 7.1% to 434,497 offences. Crime against the person has increased by 0.7%, with assaults up 0.3%. Crime against property has increased by 2%, with theft from motor vehicle…
DetailsOn Sunday the 25-05-14 at around 3.00 am a taxi driver was flagged down by two men on the corner of Chapel Street and Malvern Road. The taxi then travelled along Malvern Road and just before the intersection of Orrong Road one of the males grabbed the driver from behind in a headlock and demanded cash.…
DetailsOn the 26-05-14 at around 1.00 am two masked male offenders entered the service station on High Street in Beechworth and confronted the male service station attendant. One of the offenders was armed with a firearm and they demanded money. The attendant handed over a quantity of money and the two fled in a motor…
DetailsOn the 25-05-14 at around 2.45 am police arrived at a home on Goldsworthy Road in Corio to find a male in his thirties suffering from serious stab wounds. The victim was taken to Geelong Hospital with critical injuries. A female in his thirties, who was known to the victim, was arrested at the scene. For…
DetailsOn Sunday the 25-05-14 at around 10.30 pm a nineteen-year-old male pizza delivery driver was lured to a home on Victoria Street in Flemington where he was ambushed by three males. The delivery driver arrived at the home with six pizzas only to be told by the occupants that they had not ordered the pizzas.…
DetailsOn Saturday the 24-05-14 at around 7.45 pm a twenty-three-year-old female was walking along Rayment Street in Thornbury when she was grabbed from behind by an unknown male assailant. The female victim managed to free herself and run down a nearby lane way before contacting the police. The assaialant is described as being Caucasian, over 170 cm…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 20-05-14 at around 3.40 pm a male offender armed with a firearm and wearing a Fedora hat robbed the supermarket on Cramer Street in Preston. The offender approached a female staff member and pushed the gun into her stomach demanding cash. Other staff members then attempted to come to her aid at…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 20-05-14 at around 1.00 pm a twenty-one-year-old man used a public toilet block off Koroit Street in Warrnambool. As he was using the urinal an unknown male approached him from behind and indecently assaulted him. The offender then quickly fled the toilet block and walked towards the nearby shopping complex. If you have…
DetailsOn the 19-05-14 at about 5.50 am a thirty-seven-year-old man confronted three men in the front yard of a house on Arcadia Avenue in Reservoir. An altercation ensued between the men during which time the thirty-seven-year-old man was stabbed to his neck. The assailants then fled the scene on foot. The victim was treated at the Royal…
DetailsOn the 18-05-14 just after 5.00 am police arrested two males and a female following two attempted armed robberies on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy. Both armed robberies involved skateboards being stolen. The offenders arrested were a twenty-six-year-old male from Preston, a twenty-three-year-old man of no fixed address and a twenty-one-year-old female from Reservoir. If you have…
DetailsOn the 15-05-14 at around 3.30 pm an unknown man approached an eight-year-old girl on the school grounds of the Manningtree Road Primary School in Hawthorn . The assailant dragged the young girl into a secluded area where he verbally assaulted and kicked her before undoing the top of her uniform. The young student managed to escape from…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 13th May 2014 just after 1.30 pm a male offender entered the bank on Cheltenham Road in Keysborough armed with a firearm. The offender approached a teller and handed over a note and demanded cash in the form of fifty dollar notes. The teller handed over a quantity of cash and the offender…
DetailsOn the 14-05-14 at around 2.00 am a male entered a Service Station on Willsmere Road in Kew and approached the staff member who was mopping the floors. The offender, who was wearing a pair of skins shorts over his face and holding a hand gun, demanded the staff member stop what he was doing…
DetailsOn Saturday the 10th May 2014 two twenty-two-year-old women were indecently assaulted in Brunswick. Moreland Crime Investigation Unit detectives have since charged a thirty-seven-year-old man from Brooklyn with two counts of false imprisonment and two counts of indecent assault. The assailant is to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court for a remand hearing. For victims…
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