A Chelsea Heights drug-addict was caught using bank cards she had stolen from cars to buy ciggies and lollies. She was lucky to be granted bail after 16 days inside, but just 8 days later she was back to her crooked ways.
A young man had the world at his feet having played for Melbourne Victory youth team and local clubs. But he scored an own goal when cops caught him racing down a Dandenong road.
When a raid in Pakenham uncovered $2900 in a man’s bedroom, he told police he won the cash during a lucky streak on the pokies. But cops say it wasn’t the one-armed bandits that loaded the man’s pockets.
Victorians can’t find out who is on the state’s sex offender register due to a ban on public access. But Leader can reveal a handful of convicted criminals recently placed on the list for evil crimes. SEE WHO THEY ARE.
A man who didn’t bother to disguise himself when he broke into a car in Endeavour Hills and stole cards and cash has been busted thanks to the power of social media and a community group.
A man threatened his dad with a dead pigeon, smeared faeces around a police cell and spat on a custody officer. He was given bail at Frankston court but is now on the run after twice failing to turn up for sentencing.
Cops had seen a car parked in an Endeavour Hills driveway with two different stolen number plates attached. When they went to check it out they found an unlucky Berwick thief had made a wrong call by hiding 13 nicked mobile phones in a bag.
A Cranbourne mechanic who attacked his girlfriend, threatened to “smash her head” on the concrete ground and threw her dog around a room in a violent ice-fuelled rage has learnt his fate.
A man thought he had hit the jackpot when he burgled a Dandenong warehouse and stole two vans and three pokie machines. But the Endeavour Hills gambler’s luck ran out, and now he’s in the slot.
A man had just come out of prison for attacking his wife when he went back to her Hampton Park home. It seems he didn’t learn his lesson, starting a fight over finances, and as she held their four month-old baby.
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