POLICE are searching for witnesses, after a car fire on Brandt Road in Lysterfield last week.
At 2.20am on Tuesday 19 May, emergency services crews were called out to the car fire.
The car, believed to be a Mitsubishi coupe with no identifying features or registration plates, was destroyed by the fire.
Anyone who witnessed suspicious activity in the area at the time of the fire is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Charged over speedboat theft
A LAUNCHING Place man and a Montrose man both face court after being arrested for stealing a speedboat from Kilsyth earlier this month.
On 15 May, police intercepted a 43-year-old Launching Place man on Swansea Road, Montrose, where he was found with a stolen speedboat, taken from Kilsyth earlier in the day.
Five days later, a 26-year-old Montrose man was arrested and charged with handling stolen goods, theft of a boat and breaching an intervention order, and was remanded in custody in relation to the same theft.
Stolen property from the boat was recovered at the Montrose man’s house.
The Launching Place man has been charged with handling stolen goods, and will front Ringwood Magistrates’ Court on 18 June.
THOUSANDS of dollars in jewellery was stolen from a residential property in Selby last Tuesday, and police are asking anyone with information to come forward.
Between 8am and 5pm on Tuesday 19 May, jewellery and mp3 players were stolen from a property on Maskells Hill Road in Selby.
Lilydale Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) Detective Sergeant, Mark Smithwick, said police believed the robbers accessed the house via a doggy door.
“They must have been skinny offenders,” he said.
The estimated value of the stolen items is about $10,000.
Det Sgt Smithwick asked for residents to lock their doggy doors where possible, and for anyone with information to call Lilydale police on 9739 2300 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
TV stolen from school
A TELEVISION was stolen from Upwey Primary School last week, and police are searching for witnesses.
Between 19 and 20 May, unknown people are believed to have accessed the Darling Avenue school buildings via an unlocked window, with a television, among other items, stolen.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Cash box stolen
A CASH box containing thousands of dollars was stolen from a Macclesfield property last week, and police are asking anyone with information to come forward.
On Monday 18 May, between 8am and 11.15am, unknown people entered a house on Coopers Road, Macclesfield, and removed a cash box and money, believed to be about $5000.
Lilydale Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) Detective Sergeant Mark Smithwick said a lounge room window was forced open.
Anyone witnessing suspicious activity is asked to call Lilydale police on 9739 2300 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Bold thief parks in driveway
A KALLISTA woman came home to an unpleasant surprise last week, finding a thief’s car in her driveway.
About 11am on Monday 18 May, a Kallista woman came home to her property on Kallista-Emerald Road, and found an unknown car in her driveway.
Lilydale Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) Detective Sergeant Mark Smithwick said the occupants drove away, leaving behind power tools they had attempted to steal.
The rear house door on the property was forced open by the thieves, and Det Sgt Smithwick said anyone who might have witnessed suspicious activity between 8am and 11am on the day to call Lilydale police on 9739 2300 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
POLICE are searching around the hills for an early 90’s model Ford Falcon after a low-speed pursuit last week.
During a routine patrol of Wicks Reserve in The Basin on Tuesday 19 May, Boronia police indicated for the Falcon, towing a boat, to stop.
The driver failed to stop, and led police on a low-speed pursuit onto Boronia Road.
Police eventually gave up their pursuit for safety reasons, when the Falcon was driving on the wrong side of the road and, later, when the boat hit a car at the intersection of Tormore Road and Boronia Road, causing minor damage.
In their patrols, the police then came across the boat and trailer, dumped in Sandpiper Court.
Police are searching for the early 90’s model Ford Falcon sedan and its driver, who is described as Caucasian with dark hair.
Police are still investigating the incident and whether the boat was stolen.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to make a confidential report to www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
