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Crime’s early ugust
Protection: Costumed up but bearing no Christmas gifts, a hazmat (hazardous materials) officer looked a little out of place in Carrum Downs last week. Picture: Gary Sissons
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A GUNMAN, armed bandit, drinkdrivers and speedsters have kept Frankston police busy in the lead-up to Christmas. It’s not the start to the festive season they would have liked. No one was injured when a man fired a handgun into a Frankston hotel around 10.40pm last Wednesday. Police said a man approached the door to the function area of Davey’s hotel in Nepean Highway and fired four shots before running away. The bullets penetrated a glass barrier. A woman was in a back office at the time of the incident. On Thursday, a woman driver was caught almost seven times over the legal alcohol limit in Frankston. The 42-year-old, from Frankston, said she was on her way to pick up her son from kindergarten when she crashed into a parked car on Raphael Crescent around 12.20pm. No one was scape toinjured every in night the for incident. enation. Beautyrest’s Breath-testedoriginal at Frankston police mbines with premium latex,was found to have station, the woman blood alcohol of 0.326 per abrics toa create a rangecontent of Shetransfer will be charged on summons liminatecent. motion withundisturbed drink driving and other traffic onment for sleep. offences. In Moorooduc, highway patrol units from Frankston, Hastings and Rosebud joined an operation targeting drink drivers and licensing offences. They breath-tested 853 drivers with six returning positive readings. Four had their licences suspended immediately and will appear in court at a later date.
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In another incident, a Mornington woman, 26, was caught driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.162 per cent and a 19-year-old man caught driving while his licence was suspended and exceeding the speed limit. At Somerville, a man threatened staff with a large knife around 1am before making off with takings from the hotel in Station St. Armed Crime Squad detectives are appealing for public help following the robbery on 3 December. The offender is described as Caucasian, more than 183cm tall with a slim-to-medium build. He was wearing a black baseball cap with a white logo on the front, black pants and a black top with thick gloves. Anyone with information on these incidents is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential crime report to crimestoppers.vic.com.au A 17-year-old has lost his car for 30 days after being caught speeding in Dromana last week. Frankston highway patrol members clocked the Audi sedan at 157km/h in a 100km/h zone on the Mornington Peninsula Freeway. Leading Senior Constable Scott Woodford said Frankston, Rosebud and Hastings highway patrol units had “teamed up” to provide an increased traffic presence around Frankston and on the peninsula. “We have had enough of the increasing road trauma in the area and will do everything within our abilities to change driving attitudes,” he said. The campaign includes 43 local and 22 state highway patrol operations.
Chemical alert gets up their nose ONLOOKERS to a hazardous material – hazmat - incident at Carrum Downs could have been forgiven for thinking Santa had arrived early, or, perhaps, that strange little men from Mars were taking over the neighbourhood. In protective orange suit and green boots, and carrying a large yellow plastic container, a chemical-protected officer gingerly made his way down the driveway of a house in Pebble Beach Drive.
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He placed several articles in the container and moved back to a mansize decontamination unit set up in the middle of the street – watched by police, firemen and ambulance crews. The officers watched intently from their vantage points and, after putting their heads together and assessing their booty, the all-clear was given: The house had simply been “trashed” by former tenants and the bad smell thought to be from a chemical lab was
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declared to be – just a bad smell. Senior Sergeant Steve Duffy, of Carrum Downs police, said the real estate agent representing the landlord had reported the suspicious odour, prompting police to call in the drug lab experts to investigate. He said the house had been visited by police investigating “various activities by undesirables” in previous weeks. Incident controller Terry Larkin, of Carrum Downs CFA, said police had noticed a “strong chemical smell”, possibly coming from unidentified drums on the property. Stephen Taylor
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