On the 02-06-14 at around 6.45 pm a forty-nine-year-old woman was walking towards her motor vehicle which was parked in a car park off Annesley Street in Echuca when she was grabbed from behind by an unknown male assailant. The assailant dragged the woman into a secluded area where he attempted to remove her clothing. The female…
DetailsOn the 29-05-14 at around 3.50 pm a sixteen-year-old female was walking through a railway underpass near Victoria Street in Seymour when she noticed an adult male jogging towards her. The male ran straight at the young female victim and grabbed her around her neck and forced her towards a wall where he proceeded to…
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 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 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…
DetailsOn the 31-03-14 at around 3.40 pm a male aged in his fifties or sixties asked a fifteen-year-old girl to assist him with his motor vehicle. The teenager obliged and the offender then forced her into his motor vehicle where he assaulted her. The young female managed to escape and run home and the police…
DetailsOn Sunday the 29th March 2014 at around 6.45 pm two elderly men were walking along Chapel Street in St Kilda when they were approached by two males aged in their twenties. An altercation arose during which the fifty-eight-year-old male was punched to the head causing him to fall to the ground. His male companion…
DetailsOn Sunday the 23-03-14 at around 8.00 pm a fight broke out on Isabella Street in Shepparton between two groups of people known to each other and who have been antagonistic towards one another for some time resulting in a male sustaining serious head injuries. Police have since charged a twenty-two-year-old woman and a thirty-one-year-old…
DetailsOn Saturday the 23rd March at around 2.00 am two employees, one male and one female and both aged in their late fifties, were leaving the Mt Dandenong Hotel in Olinda after closing up when they were set upon by two assailants wearing balaclavas. The elderly employees were then marched back into the hotel where…
DetailsOn the 20-03-14 at around 8.30 am a female boarded a tram in West Brunswick towards the Melbourne CBD. An unknown male, who was being disruptive on the tram, stood behind the female and indecently assaulted her. Two other commuters came to the females aid and the assailant then got off the tram. The offender…
DetailsOn the 19-03-14 just before 8.30 pm two motor vehicles were involved in an incident on McGregor Road in Pakenham. The two motor vehicles then stopped in Stockmans Circuit where some seven individuals were involved and a physical altercation. Police have since charged five people in relation to the incident. Victims of physical assault or…
DetailsOn the 12th March 2014 at around 12.40 am a female was walking from the Newport Railway Station along Williamstown Road when a male driving a small red motor vehicle performed a u-turn and slowly drove towards her. The male yelled out to the female but she ignored him and he then parked his vehicle and…
DetailsOn Saturday the 15-03-14 a male was returning to his Ivanhoe home from work when he was attacked and struck to his head with a piece of timber and stabbed as well as being threatened to be killed. The victim was treated in hospital and has since been released. It is suggested that the attack…
DetailsOn the 07-03-14 a fight erupted at the St Kilda Twilight Market in O’Donnell Gardens. A nineteen-year-old male said that he was attacked by a group of drunken British backpackers and punched twice to his face and was treated in hospital requiring to his nose to be reset. Police reported several calls about violence that…
DetailsOn Sunday the 16-03-14 at around 12.30 pm an eighty-two-year-old woman was walking through a Geelong supermarket car park when she was approached from behind by an unknown male assailant who grabbed her handbag and pulled her to the ground at the same time. The elderly female victim sustained bruising to her hip and shoulder and was…
DetailsOn the 06-03-14 a motor vehicle pulled up behind a twenty-year-old female who was walking along Bulmans Road in Melton West at around 10.00 pm. The male driver asked the woman if she wanted a lift and when she refused he alighted and grabbed her by her hair and punched her to her face. Another motor vehicle…
DetailsOn the 05-03-14 at around 5.00 pm police arrested and charged four teenagers following an attempted theft at the Pakenham Shopping Centre on the afternoon of the 4th March 2014. The teenagers were charged with a variety of offences including resisting arrest and assaulting police. One fourteen-year-old boy was due to front the Children’s Court today…
DetailsVictoria Police crime statistics show assaults, excluding family violence, increased by 27% from 419 offences in 2012 to 533 in 2013 in Maribyrnong. Police Inspector Long said that ‘many of the non-family violence assaults occur between people known to each other and often as a result of excessive alcohol consumption or drug use’. Last year the Maroondah…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 29-01-14 at around 4.50 pm a twenty-eight-year-old female was waiting at pedestrian lights in Carlton at the intersection of Rathdowne and Grattan Streets when she was punched to her back from behind. The female victim turned at which time the assailant spat in her face before fleeing through Carlton Gardens. The offender…
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