Tag: Crime
Burglary prison appeal rejected
A man who helped organise an aggravated burglary that led to the death of a Deer Park man on Australia Day, 2014, has had...
Police in carjackings crackdown
Brimbank is the state’s top spot for carjackings, according to figures from the Crime Statistics Agency.
CSA data supplied to Star Weekly shows there was...
Our most wanted
Brimbank ranks among the highest in the state for the number of outstanding warrants and police have had enough.
Warrant Wednesdays, an operation to apprehend...
Work order for freeway fatal
A Keilor woman has been sentenced to a four-year community correction order for causing a horror crash on the Calder Freeway in 2016 which...
Police hunt for murder suspect in Keilor
Homicide Squad detectives, Fugitive Taskforce and the Brimbank Crime Investigation Unit are currently in Keilor as part of an ongoing search for Jonathan Dick.
Police...
Police search Keilor area after man assaulted with hammer
Homicide Squad detectives are appealing for public help to locate Jonathan Dick following an assault in Keilor this morning.
Investigators have been told a 38-year-old...
Man jailed for failed heroin haul
A man who tried to import more than six kilograms of heroin hidden with vases from Thailand has been sentenced to eight years jail.
Thanh...
Shot fired in Hillside
An unoccupied car was fired at in Hillside last night.
Police attended an address on John Paul Drive following reports of a shot fired about 11pm.
The window...
Police say youths in Taylors Hill there ‘to fight’
By Erin Pearson & Anna Prytz (The Age)
Police say dozens of youths who terrified residents of Taylors Hill overnight had gathered "to fight" and there...
Boat theft ‘shattering’ for family
A young Keilor family is appealing for the return of its much-loved boat.
Jay Monaghan said he awoke on Sunday, July 29, to make the...
Teacher appeals jail, conviction
A Sunshine teacher has been sentenced to jail following the indecent assault of two female students in a school library.
Sunshine Secondary College maths teacher...
Man dies following Sunshine West incident
A man has died after being found unconscious in Sunshine West on Monday.
The 34-year-old man was found by police on Drinkwater Crescent, near Talintyre...
Plea for medal return
Retired Indian Army Major-General Ranjit Nadkarni has for years marched in Anzac Day commemorations, proudly wearing the medals of 38 years of service.
But a...
Jail for drug ‘test cook’ role
A man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempting to manufacture drugs in a Brimbank motel.
John Weston, 43, pleaded guilty in...
Woman arrested following police car ramming
A 23-year-old woman has been arrested following the alleged ramming of a police vehicle in Deer Park overnight.
Police located a vehicle reported to be stolen outside...
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