On the 19-08-18 just after midnight a 46-year-old Craigieburn man was sitting in his Mercedes in a supermarket car park on Blair Street in Dallas when two men, both armed with a firearm, exited a nearby vehicle and approached him. The offenders demanded he get out before driving off in his vehicle, while another car…
DetailsOn the 21-08-18 at around 3.00pm a woman was assaulted whilst riding her bicycle along a bike path in parkland near Vincent Road in Wangaratta. The unknown man offender approached the victim and grabbed her around the neck, pushing her to the ground, while demanding cigarettes and money. The offender proceeded to punch the victim…
DetailsOn Friday 17th August 2018 at around 8.20pm a thirty-four-year-old female parked her car in the garage of her Habitat Court home in Tarneit when she was followed inside by four males who proceeded to ransack her home. One of the offenders produced a machete and punched the woman to the face before making demands…
DetailsOn the 23-08-18 just before 7am a 38-year-old man was assaulted with a hammer in a residential driveway on Church Street in Keilor. The victim sustained a laceration to the back of his head and was taken to hospital. A woman and children were present inside the house during the incident but were unharmed. The…
DetailsAt around 12.30 on the 23-08-18 a male was kidnapped from a residential property in Wantirna and taken to a smash repairs factory in Lilydale where the offenders demanded he give them a motor vehicle under repair at the factory. Yarra Ranges Crime Investigation Unit detectives have since charged a Yarra Junction man with kidnapping,…
DetailsOn the 23-08-18 at around 9.50pm three males entered a restaurant on Lake Street in Caroline Springs armed with metal bars and a meat cleaver. The offenders smashed a number of items as they attempted to steal the cash register but fled empty-handed in a vehicle. Some ten minutes later three males with bandanas covering…
DetailsOn the 09-08-18 at around 3.00 am two male offenders entered a property on Castley Crescent in Braybrook and demanded cash from a male resident. The offenders then proceeded to seriously assault the victim before taking him from the property. Police were called and soon after arrested two twenty-two-year-old Braybrook men and recovered the victim…
DetailsOn the 08-08-18 just before 4.30 am an offender armed with a firearm entered a convenience store on Springvale Road in Springvale South. The offender approached the front counter and demanded cash from the forty-year-old male staff member who quickly attempted to lock himself in a store room behind the counter but was shot to…
DetailsOn the 05-08-18 at around 10.30 pm a seventeen-year-old boy and his friend were approached by two unknown males, believed to be aged in their late teens, while at a post office in Pakenham. The pair then followed the victims as they walked along the Pakenham Creek Reserve Trail before producing a knife and demanding…
DetailsOn the 26-07-18 just after 9.00 pm a fifty-seven-year-old Narre Warren South woman was driving her white VW Golf R along Harrington Drive in Narre Warren when her car was struck from behind by a light-coloured four- wheel drive. The woman got out of her car to check the damage when she was approached by…
DetailsOn the 26-07-18 just before midnight a forty-four-year-old man from Springvale was fishing off the Beaumaris Yacht Club when he was approached by an unknown male. The victim continued baiting his hook when he was suddenly struck to the back of the head with a tomahawk. The often then immediately dropped the weapon and fled.…
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