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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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GANNAWARRACamper trailer theft: A CAMPER trailer was stolen from a Red Rise Track campsite outside Leitchville between 7 and 9am on Sunday, July 13. Offenders appear to have cut the lock securing the 2023 MDC Explorer camper trailer to the owners’...

21 Jul 2025
Police & Courts

Police beat

Crime from around the region. Theft from motor vehicle, Parcel theft. DIESEL was syphoned from a heavy vehicle in Leithcville last month.

14 Jul 2025
Police & Courts

Police Beat 04-07

Crime from around the region. Thefts, attempted vehicle thefts and damage.

04 Jul 2025
News

Crime drops in Gannawarra, up across state

CRIME in the Gannawarra municipality has dropped by 10.9 per cent in the year to the end of March after skyrocketing by 31 per cent the previous 12 months. There were 610 recorded criminal incidents in the 12 months to March 2025...

30 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Police Beat

Crime from around the region.

20 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Long weekend speedsters fined

SWAN Hill police issued dozens of fines to speeding drivers during the King’s Birthday long weekend. Local police saturated roads across the Mallee as they attempted to curb road trauma amid the rapidly growing number of lives lost on Victorian roads...

20 Jun 2025
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Police & Courts

Police beat

Crime from around the region. Deliberate fire, vehicle stolen, lock it up. POLICE are investigating a deliberately lit fire in Kerang on May 24.

03 Jun 2025
Police & Courts

Driver caught with “dangerously high” BAC

A KERANG woman has been slammed by local police and the state’s top road cop after she allegedly got behind the wheel despite being more than six times over the legal alcohol limit. Kerang police were notified about 9pm on May 20 of a blue Mazd...

27 May 2025
Police & Courts

Police beat

Crime from around the region. Swall fire, diesel theft, Theft from motor vehicle.

27 May 2025
Police & Courts

Rampage appeal dismissed

A VIOLENT offender who rammed through a Kerang car dealer during a three-month rampage across regional Victoria in 2021 has had his appeal against sentence dismissed. Korey Caddy, 35, was granted leave to appeal against a sentence imposed in the...

14 May 2025
Police & Courts

Assault charge

A MAN accused of murdering a well-known Quambatook resident is facing additional violence-related charges. Brian Barnes, 67, appeared via video link from Thomas Embling Hospital with visible facial injuries, including a swollen nose and bruised eye...

06 May 2025
Police & Courts

Police Beat

Multiple vehicles, property items, and bikes were recently stolen across the region, with one man arrested on drug charges.

06 May 2025
Police & Courts

Police Beat

CultivatePOLICE seized a cannabis plant growing at a Leitchville address. Officers executed a warrant on April 16, finding the large plant growing in the read yard and cannabis in the home. A 54-year-old male was spoken to and will be interviewed at...

30 Apr 2025
Police & Courts

Police Beat

A VICTIM received a phone alert of someone at his address in Lake Boga while away from his home just after midnight on Sunday, April 13. He returned home and located a male at the address. The male was arrested and interviewed. He was...

23 Apr 2025
Police & Courts

Police beat

Crime from around the region. Criminal damage, burglary, drug and weapon possessions, burglary, theft of motor vehicle. Offenders attempted to steal a white 2008 Ford Ranger from an address in Boundary Street between 10.30pm, April 2 and 3pm, April 3.

16 Apr 2025
Police & Courts

Less crime reported for region

CRIME in the Gannawarra local government area has bucked the statewide trend and dropped compared to the previous year. According to Crime Statistics Agency, Gannawarra’s crime rate decreased by 15.9 per cent for the year ending December 2024. There...

09 Apr 2025
Police & Courts

Police Beat 04-04

Crime from around the region: Arson, Possess drug, Criminal damage, Vehicle theft, Arson, Assault. Someone has entered the ambulant toilet on Monash Drive, Nyah West and set fire to toilet paper between 6pm on Friday, March 28 and 12pm the following day. The structure itself was not damaged.

09 Apr 2025