POLICE are asking for help from the public to help find a bail-skipper, known to visit the Boronia and Belgrave areas.
Victoria Police published a callout on Monday 28 September, looking for 21-year-old Grady Weinberg.
Police said warrants had been issued for Mr Weinberg’s arrest, for failing to answer bail, serious assault and stalking.
Mr Weinberg is known to visit the Boronia, Belgrave, Frankston and Mornington areas, and is about 170cm tall with a medium build, short brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to submit a confidential crime report at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
Aquatic break-in proves futile
A WOULD-BE thief has fled empty-handed after breaking into the Monbulk Aquatic Centre last week.
Between 5am and 5.15am on Monday 21 September, unknown persons broke into the aquatic centre on Baynes Park Road in Monbulk.
Yarra Ranges Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) Detective Sergeant Pat Barrow said that an unknown person broke into the centre through a side door, went to the reception area and looked through the cash register.
However, the would-be thief left empty-handed after a security alarm went off.
“We’re just looking for anybody who may have seen vehicles or people in the area at that time,” Det Sgt Barrow said.
Anyone who saw any suspicious activity at the time of the break in is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to submit a confidential crime report to www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
Strangers douse fence fire
TWO good Samaritans are being sought by police after helping to extinguish a burning fence in Upwey last week.
Yarra Ranges police officers, posting on the Eyewatch Yarra Ranges Police Service Area Facebook page, said that in the early hours of Wednesday 23 September, a brush-cut fence was set on fire in Glenfern Road in Upwey.
The post read that two men passing by alerted the owner of the property and helped to extinguish the fire.
Police said the victim “in the heat of the moment” did not get the details of the men, believed to live in the Belgrave area, and that police would like to speak to them about the incident.
Anyone with information is asked to call Yarra Ranges detectives on 9739 2300 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Scout found safe and sound
A WAYWARD Scout was found safe and sound in Gembrook last week, after police were called in to help with a search.
Emerald police were called out to the Scouts Australia Gilwell Park in Gembrook-Launching Place Road, Gembroook, at 12.30am on Tuesday 22 September, after a 12-year-old boy was reported missing.
Emerald Police Sergeant Danny Hower said the boy was discovered missing at 10.30pm on Monday 21 September, and police were later called in when no trace of the boy was found.
Sgt Hower said the story ended on a happy note, when the boy was found safe and sound in another tent with a friend at 2am.
Multiple charges over family violence
A GEMBROOK man was capsicum sprayed and arrested after breaching an intervention order last week in Gembrook.
On Tuesday 22 September, Emerald police officers were called out to a family violence incident in Gembrook.
Emerald Police Sergeant Danny Hower said a 20-year-old Gembrook man was capsicum sprayed during the incident while resisting arrest, and was charged with assault, resisting police and contravening an intervention order.
Sgt Hower said the man’s intervention order was varied to exclude him from the property where the incident took place, and he was then bailed to appear at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 24 September.
Bird thief on the run
A BIRD-LOVING thief is being hunted by police after stealing more than 15 birds last week from Lilydale.
Yarra Ranges police officers posting on the Eyewatch Yarra Ranges Police Service Area Facebook page said that overnight on Wednesday 23 September, 15 canaries and an Amazonian blue cap parrot were stolen from Lilydale.
The parrot does not have a name, but is able to say “Hello” and “What do you want?”
“The owners are very upset,” the Facebook post read.
Anyone with information is asked to call Senior Constable Kate Williams on 9739 2404 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Metal pole used in servo robbery.
Metal pole used in servo robbery
POLICE are hunting two men who allegedly robbed a Chirnside Park service station with a metal pole last month.
According to police officers posting on the Eyewatch Yarra Ranges Police Service Area Facebook page, two masked men entered the service station just before 2am on Monday 10 August.
The men then jumped the counter and demanded cash, threatening an employee with a metal pole.
The pair made off with cash and cigarettes.
Police have described the men as Caucasian, aged in their late-teens to mid-twenties, medium build and between 175cm-185cm tall.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to make a confidential report at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
Expensive motorbike stolen
A CUSTOM motorbike was stolen from a Kilsyth garage over the weekend, and police are appealing for witnesses to try and track down the distinctive bike.
Between 10pm on Sunday 27 September and 5.45am the next day, police believe unknown persons broke into a Kilsyth garage through a door.
Yarra Ranges Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) Detective Sergeant Pat Barrow said the burglars stole an imported Big Dog Mastiff motorbike.
Det Sgt Barrow said the bike was maroon and cherry-black in colour with “a lot of chrome” and tribal artwork on the sides, and was worth about $30,000.
Anyone who saw any suspicious activity at the time of the break in – or who has spotted the bike – is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333.
A CHIRNSIDE Park man will face court after damaging a car in Montrose last year, following his arrest by Yarra Ranges police.
A 20-year-old Chirnside Park man was arrested and charged in relation to criminal damage to a motor vehicle in Montrose in September 2014.
The man was bailed, and will front Ringwood Magistrates’ Court on 25 January 2016.
