Hume crime: Cannabis crop found in Mickleham, horror carjacking for Dallas driver
A STRONG smell coming from a home in Melbourne’s north led to a surprising discovery.
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A HYDROPONIC cannabis crop was discovered at a Mickleham property, and a Coolaroo man has been fined more than $1000 after flicking a lit cigarette butt from his car.
DALLAS
A driver of a luxury car has allegedly been threatened by two men armed with guns during a terrifying carjacking in Dallas on August 19.
The Craigieburn man, 49, was sitting in his Mercedes in a supermarket carpark on Blair St, Dallas, when two men, both armed with a gun, got out of a nearby car and approached him just after midnight.
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The men demanded the driver get out of his Mercedes before driving off with it, while another car followed. Police arrested four men and a woman at a property in Tylden Place, Westmeadows at about 4.30pm on August 20.
Two firearms were also seized. A Dandenong North man, 19, has been charged with firearms offences and a Dandenong North man, 27, has been charged with aggravated carjacking.
Two men and a woman have been released pending further inquiries. The Mercedes has been recovered.
COOLAROO
A Coolaroo man who carelessly flicked a lit cigarette butt from his car window has been slammed with a hefty fine.
A passer-by saw the butt tossed from a black hatchback on Princes St in Carlton shortly after 8pm on Christmas Day last year. They reported details of the incident to the Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA).
The EPA issued the man with a $634 fine, but he took the matter to court. But when the man failed to appear in court he was hit with an additional $1018.95 fine to cover the EPA’s legal costs.
EPA executive director Paul Stacchino said cigarette butts were the most common items of litter.
“EPA issues approximately 12,000 litter fines a year and three quarters of those fines involve cigarette butts,” he said. To make a pollution report contact the EPA’s hotline on 1300 372 842. Reports must include the location and time of the incident.
BROADMEADOWS
Two cars were found set alight on two separate occasions at Seabrook Reserve last week. Witnesses reported seeing a grey Hyundai hatchback drive into the reserve carpark and pour accelerant over a stolen Ford utility about 9.41am on August 20.
Witnesses called 000 and the MFB extinguished the fire. Police wish to speak to the driver of the Hyundai.
He is described as Middle Eastern in appearance, aged in his 20s-30s, with a short cropped beard and short curly hair.
He was wearing a green shirt and light coloured pants. In a separate incident at 8.33pm on August 22, unknown offenders drove a Holden Astra into the same reserve.
They committed hoon activity before driving the vehicle into some bushes and setting it alight. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
MICKLEHAM
A hydroponic cannabis crop was discovered in the roof of a house at Mickleham on August 17.
Police allegedly found more than 90 cannabis plants and some hydroponic equipment at the Moncton Way property about 4.30pm. Police investigations are ongoing.
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