Northern beaches targeted by teen ‘criminals’ from western Sydney
Local detectives have hunted down alleged teen criminals from western Sydney who travel to the northern beaches to steal cars and break into vehicles.
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Youths from other parts of the city have been travelling to the northern beaches to allegedly take part in late night crime sprees.
They have been coming from southwest and western Sydney to steal cars and thieve valuables such as credit cards and laptop computers from parked vehicles.
Late last month detectives from the Northern Beaches Police Area Command arrested three young males in the city’s south west.
Alleged crimes include stealing cars and travelling in stolen vehicles as well as using credit cards stolen from cars in suburbs including Curl Curl, Balgowlah, Beacon Hill and Belrose.
The charges, including participating in criminal group to contribute to criminal activity, relate to a series of alleged offences throughout September and October.
And on Friday another teenager from the St Marys was charged with eight offences related to thefts from cars at Curl Curl and Belrose.
In the last week of October, detectives from the Northern Beaches Police Proactive Crime Team, armed with search warrants, raided homes at Mt Pritchard, near Liverpool, as well as Airds and Ingleburn, near Campbelltown.
Charges were laid against a 17-year old youth and man, 20. They included dishonestly obtain property by deception; receive stolen property; participate in criminal group to contribute to criminal activity and drive conveyance without consent of owner
Both were refused bail.
Charges are pending against a 16-year-old boy for allegedly stealing a car from Beacon Hill, and using credit cards he allegedly found in the vehicle. The charges will be served on him when he appears in the Surry Hills Children’s Court on similar offences next month.
In separate arrests last month a trio of boys — two of them aged just 15 years old — were charged with stealing a luxury high-powered sports car worth close to $200,000
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The teens were arrested near Campbelltown after they were spotted, by an off-duty police officer, getting out of the BMW at the Macarthur Square shopping centre.
Police recovered allegedly stolen laptops and credit cards.
Northern Beaches crime manager Michael Boutouridis said youths from other parts of the city targe the northern beaches because they see it as a location for goods they want to steal.
Chief Inspector Boutouridis said the youths travel here at night to steal cars and break into vehicles.
“The message from police is ‘don’t make it easy for them’,” he said.
“Our best advice to residents is ‘lock your cars and keep your valuables out of your cars, or at the very least, out of sight’.”.
Inspector Boutouridis also wanted to remind people intent on stealing that police are patrolling the northern beaches in uniform and in plain clothes.
“Our job is to catch or deter thieves. We’ve got a great team here who do some excellent detective work to investigate, gather evidence and piece together cases against offenders we identify.”