Smashed their way out
POLICE are searching for a gate-destroying driver, who took a joyride around the Levantine Hill estate in Coldstream last week, before smashing their way out of the property.
Yarra Ranges Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) Detective Acting Sergeant, Marc Hodgson, said someone in a white Mitsubishi Magna sedan drove around the property at 11am on Thursday, 15 October.
The gate to the property then closed, and the driver forced their way through the gate, causing “significant damage”.
“The vehicle was last seen driving towards Healesville,” Det Act Sgt Hodgson said.
He said the car was bearing stolen registration plates at the time of the incident.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to submit a confidential crime report to www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
Power tools theft
POWER tools and equipment have been stolen from Healesville’s Queens Park oval, and police are asking anyone with information to come forward.
Between 4pm on Tuesday, 13 October, and 7.30am the next day, unknown persons entered a site shed near the oval, adjacent to Don Road, and stole a brushcutter and a whacker-packer compactor.
Healesville Police Sergeant, Stewart Thomson, said the total value of the items was $2000 and urged anyone who saw any suspicious activity to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to submit a confidential crime report to www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
Keep clear of tunnel
POLICE are warning residents to keep clear of the Tarrawarra Tunnel on the Yarra Valley Railway line, as officers investigate a number of graffiti incidents in the town.
Healesville Police Sergeant, Stewart Thomson, said that graffiti had been spotted at the Healesville Railway Station, at the football grounds at the Queens Park oval and at the Tarrawarra railway tunnel.
Sgt Thomson said the tunnel was a major tourism asset for the town and part of the town’s history, and now had to have graffiti – some of it obscene – scrubbed off it.
He said that the tunnel and the railway tracks surrounding it were private property, leased by the Yarra Valley Railway, and that going inside the tunnel on foot was trespassing.
Sgt Thomson said that signs were also located in the areas around the tunnel, discouraging people from entering, and that police would prosecute those caught.
“We’ll be actively enforcing it,” he said.
Anyone who has information on the graffiti is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to submit a confidential crime report to www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
Police on patrol
WARBURTON Police will be regularly patrolling Mount Donna Buang, after a car drove off of the road over the weekend.
Warburton Police Leading Senior Constable (LSC), Kevin Bishop, said that at about 1am on Sunday, 18 October, a car drove off of the side of Donna Buang Road.
LSC Bishop said that another car was present at the time of the crash, and both drivers were issued penalty notices for having unroadworthy vehicles, as both had bald back tyres.
He said no-one was injured in the crash, and that police would be regularly patrolling the mountain to deter hoons and drivers who came to the area to do burnouts – behaviour he called an “ongoing issue.”
“We have a concerted effort to combat that sort of driving behaviour on Mount Donna Buang,” he said.
