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Footy kids jump the finals gun FOOTY fever came early for children at Rangebank Preschool last week as children showed their colours for a day of fun. With AFL finals just around the corner, the Cranbourne preschool started the hype early with a football themed day on Tuesday 12 August. Children sported their team colours, made and decorated footy biscuits, painted footballs and played some games all before enjoying a frankfurt in bread. Heath and Chelsie were united in their support for their beloved Hawks as they got into the spirit of the celebrations. Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
Teen knife threat A 17-YEAR-OLD boy has been released on bail after being charged over two carjackings at knifepoint - one of them in Casey Hospital car park. On Thursday, a children’s court was told the boy was charged with three armed robberies, two attempted armed robberies, two thefts, theft of a motor vehicle, unlicensed driving, being equipped to steal and three counts of obtaining property by deception from 3-8 August. An Embona armed robbery detective told the court the boy allegedly used a kitchen knife to threaten a man who was sitting in his dark-coloured Yaris speaking to his mother on a
from service stations in Noble Park and Springvale. The pair also allegedly threatened a man at knifepoint and stole food and a GPS from his car in Oakleigh on 3 August. The boy was accused of being in a group travelling in the Yaris that attempted two armed robberies in Clarendon Street, Cranbourne, at 4.10 and 4.25pm on 7 August. He was also accused of being among a pair who robbed a female walker of her wallet and fled by foot in Brookland Greens, Cranbourne, at 7.45pm the same day. The boy was also accused of being among a group smoking cannabis bongs at a Mulgrave house and driving
In granting bail, the magistrate the Yaris unlicensed through Beaconsfield, Cranbourne and Dandenong in said: "Given the nature of the offending which is serious, there’s no doubt the early hours of 8 August. He and another male equipped with risks associated with the release of the scissors tried to break into two cars applicant. "Bail conditions can be formed so in Dandenong. Using the scissors, the male broke into and started a red that the risks are not necessarily an unNissan, in which the pair travelled to acceptable one." a fast food outlet. They used the Civic The boy was released on the convictim’s credit card to buy food on two dition that he lives at a nominated adoccasions. dress with a night curfew, not associate OVER 200with USED CHOOSE FROM fiveCARS namedTO males, be subject to a They returned to the Mulgrave house, where they and another male youth justice supervision program with were arrested and charged with the drug and alcohol treatment and vocational support, not contact prosecution thefts of the Yaris and Nissan. $6,990 $7,990 $12,990 $15,990 and not drive a car. $16,990 The detective told the court the boy witnesses He was bailed to appear at court made partial admissions but showed no later this month. remorse during a police interview. 16,990
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