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ICE CREAM is a family affair for Kristen and Jack Lowe at Ged Head, a pop-up ice-cream shop due to close on Monday. The business closure is all part of the plan though since the Lowe family always intended to operate Ged Head for three months over summer to have fun and offer work experience to local youngsters. See story Page 6. Picture: Gary Sissons
Police put Skids off the road Stephen Taylor steve@baysidenews.com.au POLICE believe three arrests on the Mornington Peninsula are integral to their success in putting the brakes on two groups of hoon drivers regularly hold street drag meetings in Melbourne’s south east. An 18-year-old Somerville man is among nine arrested in the past week by detectives targeting hoon behaviour in Melbourne’s south-east.
On Monday police arrested and charged a Mornington man, 23, who they describe as “a ringleader” of the South-East Skids. He has been charged with six counts of reckless conduct endangering serious injury, and other hoon and trafficrelated offences. A 21 year old Mt Martha man was charged with reckless conduct endangering serious injury, driving in a manner dangerous, failing to have proper control of a vehicle, driving in a manner so as to cause loss of trac-
tion and driving in manner to cause unnecessary noise and smoke. Police say they have now arrested 42 people and seized 21 cars since Operation Regarder began in November. On Friday police executed search warrants and seized three cars with Inspector Michael Daly saying police had “effectively shut down the South East Skids and Northern Skids hoon groups”. Crowds of 300-400 people regularly view the events in factory zones, es-
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pecially in Dandenong, Lynbrook, and Carrum Downs. A 21-year-old Greensborough man has been charged with reckless conduct endangering serious injury and possess explosives. Police will allege the Mt Martha man was driving a utility in a Dandenong hooning event last September which fish-tailed before hitting and injuring a 21-year-old woman spectator. The arrests come after two people were killed in January when the ute they were travelling in crashed at
Keilor East. Police believe they had earlier been at an illegal street race. Inspector Daly, of Dandenong police, said the results showed the taskforce’s dedication to holding hoon drivers to account. “If these offenders want to treat their cars as weapons then we will, too. We will seize them and keep them as exhibits as we do with any other weapon,” he said. “Let us be clear, our focus extends beyond the drivers themselves to the spectators.” Continued Page 3