Road across Frankston-Dandenong Road, 12.30pm, Wednesday 29 July. The 64-year-old told police he “wanted to get through the intersection quickly as the lights were changing”. His car was impounded for a month with a $1390 release fee and he will be summonsed to appear at court for excessive speed.
In safe hands: An excited Nelson is comforted by owner Medha Murtagh below, and, below left, a member of the Dandenong high angle rescue crew abseils down the Mount Martha cliff. Pictures: Supplied
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Vacuum, phone go A DYSON vacuum cleaner, cash, and a Samsung S10 mobile phone with a total value of $1400 were stolen from a house at Capel Sound, overnight 20 June. Detectives from Somerville CIU said the offenders cut the fly wire off a screen door to access the house in Flamingo Road.
DESPITE warnings to stay at home, white and fluffy offenders Ginger and Izzy made a dash from their home at Rye before coming to the attention of police tasked with quarantine enforcement. Izzy was quickly apprehended, but co-offender Ginger proved to be more elusive and made a run for it before being collared. The pair went home in the back of a divvy van. With neither party providing a satisfactory reason for being out, and not wearing masks, things were looking grim. However, after taking into account their unblemished records, leniency prevailed. The West Highland terriers were sentenced to a bath and a sevenday suspension of treats.
Lights fine TRYING to beat the lights proved costly for a Sandhurst man last week. Somerville Highway Patrol police clocked the man driving at 110kph from Wedge Road into Boundary
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