A MAN is expected to face court after smashing the front window of the Healesville Newsagency over the weekend.
Healesville Police Sergeant, Stewart Thomson, said the front window of the newsagency was broken at 11.56pm on Saturday, 6 February.
A man was then arrested, and is expected to be charged on summons.
Sgt Thomson said the window would cost at least $1500 to replace.
They didn’t bank on that
TWO drunken Healesville men got more than they bargained for, when police caught them red-handed inside a bank in the middle of the night over the weekend.
Just before 1am on Saturday, 6 February, police caught two 22-year-old Healesville men inside the Healesville Community Bank branch in the town’s main street.
Healesville Police Leading Senior Constable Jarrod Rollason, said the men were drunk and banging against doors to open them, possibly to find items to steal, when the door to the bank came open.
However, nothing was taken from the bank branch, and the two men were arrested for being drunk in public.
Both will receive infringement penalty notices for the incident.
Gate opener stolen
THIEVES made off with an automated gate-opening system from a Healesville property last week, and police are calling on anyone with information to come forward.
Healesville Police Sergeant, Stewart Thomson, said that between 8pm on Friday, 5 February, and 8am on Sunday, 7 February, unknown people stole a solar-powered gate-opening system from a property on Lowes Road in Healesville.
Sgt Thomson said the robbery was “odd”, and asked anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to submit a confidential report to www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
Missing motorbike
POLICE are on the hunt for a motorbike thief after a burglary last week from a shed at a Launching Place property.
Between 3pm on Thursday, 4 February and 10am the next day, unknown people are believed to have gone into a shed on a property in Wickhams Road, Launching Place.
Yarra Ranges Crime Investigation Unit Detective Sergeant, Pat Barrow, said the thieves then made off with a yellow Suzuki DR400 motorbike, valued at $2400.
He said there were no signs of forced entry on the shed, and noted that sheds are often easy targets for thieves, compared to houses, as they are usually unoccupied.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to submit a confidential crime report to www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
Car park robbery
POLICE are searching for witnesses, after a man’s car was robbed in broad daylight in a Chirnside Park car park last week.
Sometime between 11am and 11.45am on Wednesday, 3 February, unknown people opened a car parked outside Pete’s Bargain Centre on Maroondah Highway in Chirnside Park.
The thieves have then stolen a Nokia mobile phone, a black bag and cash, worth $1350 in total.
Yarra Ranges Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) Detective Sergeant, Pat Barrow, said there were no signs of damage or forced entry on the car, and asked anyone who saw suspicious behaviour to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Windows smashed
A KILSYTH man will face court later in the year after being caught smashing windows in Mooroolbark at the end of January.
Yarra Ranges Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) Detective Sergeant, Pat Barrow, said that in the early hours of Sunday, 31 January, a man was believed to have smashed the windows of two properties in Mooroolbark.
Police arrested the man, a 32-year-old Kilsyth resident, who was interviewed and charged with several counts of criminal damage and weapons offences.
He was bailed to appear at Ringwood Magistrates’ Court on 13 July.
