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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
STAR OF THE NORTH
Thief strikes again
This time it’s us – as police act on crime wave
Marc’s Meats was raided for the second time – owner Marc Van Kleef inspects the damaged door with crime investigator, Senior Constable Cate Williams.
ANOTHER two break-ins, three attempted break-ins and the theft of a boat on its trailer from a farm near Halbury ensured the continual spate of crime in Balaklava and surrounding towns continued over the past week. Balaklava businesses Zank’s Place and the newsagency were targets of attempted break-ins last Thursday night, while the boat and trailer were also stolen on the same evening. Thieves then targeted Marc’s Meats for a second time without gaining entry, optometrist Specsavers and the Plains Producer office early Monday morning. The recent crimes bring the running total of break-ins and attempted break-ins on
Les Pearson reports: businesses and other local organisations in Balaklava to 16 in the past six weeks. Local police are confident they will soon put an end to the crime spree affecting the region. SAPOLYorke operations manager, senior sergeant Martin Bazeley, attended a police strategy meeting yesterday, held to target the crime wave. “There’s been a number of breaks across our LSA (local service area), some have been linked, some haven’t,” he said. “We’re working through all of those.” Sgt Bazeley said police were starting to
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see results from their concentrated efforts in recent weeks. “We’ve got a number of suspects and had some arrests for some of the breaks in the last couple of days,” he said. “We’ve also got some more people who are going to be visited in the next few days and hopefully as a result of that we’ll have some further arrests and recover some property. “It is an ongoing thing and we’ve got a number of people putting in some good effort to try to deal with it.” He was confident the region’s police management have responded well.
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