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Crop in police hands Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au POLICE are praising “astute members of the public” for helping them seize a massive haul of cannabis in Rosebud last Thursday. Sergeant Chris Russo, of Mornington Peninsula CIU, said 164 plants were seized as well as 76 cuttings which were in the process of being propagated. He said the crop had a street value of $150,000. Seven police raided the Eastbourne Rd house which had been set up as a hydroponic cannabis warehouse. Six rooms were filled with black plastic tubs for growing the plants which were hooked up to a water system in the bath. A power bypass system in the ceiling diverted electricity from the mains supply. Sergeant Russo said the house had been under continual surveillance but that members of the public had made the police job easier. He said the owner of the house was being sought. It did not appear to be a rented house. The haul was transferred to Rosebud police station for analysis. Anyone with information is asked to call Sergeant Russo at Mornington Peninsula CIU, 59781300 or triple zero.
Runaway CLEANERS disturbed an intruder at a supermarket in Balnarring, 1am,
Fire house: Fire crews outside a Rosebud house from which a critically injured woman was airlifted to the Alfred hospital. Picture: Gary Sissons
Fire woman ‘critical’ On a high: Police seized 164 cannabis plants from the Eastbourne Rd, Rosebud, house last Thursday. Picture: Yanni
Wednesday 10 August. Mornington Peninsula CIU’s Senior Sergeant Miro Majstorovic said a man wearing a mask was spotted trying to enter a manhole in the loading bay of the Russell St premises, but ran off when disturbed.
fenders smashed the front windows of the Balnarring Post Office but could not gain entry. Sergeant Majstorovic said CCTV and other forensic evidence was being examined.
Shop damages
WHISKY and chocolates valued at $2000 and possibly cigarettes were stolen from a Mt Martha supermarket, 1am, Wednesday 10 August. Four offenders used a sledgehammer to smash through the front windows of the Lochiel Av store before entering and trying to break open the cigarette cabinet. Sergeant Majstorovic said the men ransacked cabinets and shelving.
OFFENDERS smashed the front glass window of a laminating factory in Balnarring, overnight Tuesday 9 August. They then attempted to jemmy open the front door of the business on Frankston-Flinders Rd, causing $2000 damage. In a possibly linked attempted robbery the same night, of-
Supermarket raid
FIREFIGHTERS from Rosebud and Rye had to break down a laundry door to rescue a woman trapped in a burning house in Coleman Cres, Rosebud, early last Wednesday morning. The woman, aged in her 40s, had suffered a heart attack in the single storey brick veneer when the fire took hold in her bedroom. Senior station officer Grant Kidd, of Rosebud CFA, said crews carried the non-responsive woman outside where she was revived by ambulance officers and airlifted to The Alfred hospital. He said the woman called triple zero at 6.16am and fire crews arrived within minutes. He said the woman may have been smoking in bed and that there was lots of smoking paraphernalia in the house.
Mr Kidd said firefighters entered though the laundry as the woman had deadlocked the front door and removed the key. There was no smoke detector in the house and bundles of household and personal items blocking walkways made access difficult. Fire damage to the front of the house was severe with smoke and water damaging the remainder. Eight firefighters from Rosebud, four from Rye and the Bayswater breathing apparatus crew brought the fire under control within one hour. An Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said the woman suffered burns to her airways as well as heart trouble and was in a critical condition. Mornington Peninsula CIU Sergeant Miro Majstorovic said police were treating the fire as suspicious.
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