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The Rumour File, March 18

Posted by: 3AW Radio | 2 December, 2009 - 10:34 AM


ABOVE: The 3AW Breakfast Rumour File is on every weekday from 7am. Ross relays to the Rumour File a tale from the suburbs of how an off-duty cop chased down some thieves and as a result was confronted with a crowbar.

POLICE UPDATE: An off-duty police Inspector has caught three burglars in the act overnight in Templestowe.

The Detective Inspector was driving through a residential area in Templestowe when he saw three men stealing power tools from a building site and loading them into a white van about 11 pm.

He followed the thieves in their car until they stopped at a dead-end street nearby.

A confrontation has occurred with the thieves turning on the police officer, smashing his car with iron bars and a wheel brace.

The policeman called triple zero for help and the call was answered by a number of his colleagues as well as a police dog. The thieves then ran away.

One was captured by the police dog in nearby Thompsons Road.

The other two handed themselves in to police a few hours later.

The three men, a 22-year-old from Doncaster, a 23-year-old from Doncaster East, and a 26-year-old from Mill Park have all been charged with burglary, theft, conduct endangering life and assault with a weapon. The driver of the van was also charged with driving whilst suspended.

The have been bailed to appear at Heidelberg Magistrates' Court at a later date.

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Blog comments Your Say

  • Interested to hear your comments this morning regarding Melbourne's water restrictions being eased back to stage 3 due to Melbourne water storage rising only 4% to 34%.
    As a recreational private pilot flying over Sugarloaf and Yan Yean regulary, when exiting Melbourne, I have been happily surprised at the great increase in dam levels since late 2007. Official levels report a rise of only 4% in Melbournes water storage, my observations on these two locations is a conservative 30%+ rise since late 2007.

    Richard Wednesday 17 March, 2010 - 3:07 PM
  • Re the new tax office assessment notices
    What a waste of paper in sending 4 page assessments when 1 used to be sent to every taxpayer in Australia.

    Has the ATO gone mad? Does Peter Garrett need to get involved? - er maybe not.

    Damian Harman Monday 1 March, 2010 - 10:02 AM
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    kim Thursday 25 February, 2010 - 1:53 PM
  • Melbourne Airport incident-about 3pm Sunday 21st Feb a friend was was observing planes landing whilst waiting for his son to land. He was near the control tower & observed a landing Qantas suddenly rev up its engines & bank steeply away from the approach, he turned & saw a smaller jet taking off from the runway. When he picked up his son who was retuning from Sth America via NZ the son said he & the passengers were startled by the planes sudden change of manner - have there been reports or do the authorities hush it up?

    Tony Wednesday 24 February, 2010 - 12:26 AM
  • To Ross & John, is it possible for you to have the full replay of the (((RUMOR))) file ? as it is a pain when I miss the program, the rumor file is not a long segment..Regards David Parker. P.S Great program guys !!!

    david parker Sunday 21 February, 2010 - 1:27 PM
  • rumoure hs it that a large cat who roamed the royal& accient Kingston flats,Mother was escort to #1 on the calander.

    Mitch Kenny Tuesday 9 February, 2010 - 10:57 PM

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