{"id":176397,"date":"2025-09-29T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176397\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:07:09","slug":"man-sought-after-mosque-burgled-twice-20000-stolen-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176397\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sought after mosque burgled twice, $20,000 stolen in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is sought after two burglaries at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> mosque this month.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s believed a man broke into the mosque on Hudson Circuit in Meadow Heights at about 2am on Wednesday, September 10.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>He then broke open a donation box and a safe in the building and stole about $20,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/69cc8b54-3ead-4548-b907-5b798c3c89dc.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>A man is sought after a Melbourne mosque was broken into twice this month in Meadow Heights. (Victoria Police)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3c61ada7-9ff6-4521-873e-78f203eea7fa.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>The man stole $20,000 on one occasion. (Victoria Police)<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe \ufeffthe same man broke into the mosque again at about 1.20am on Thursday, September 25, but on that occasion he left empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p>The man had his face covered during both incidents and was wearing a black Nike fleece hoodie and black tracksuit pants.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>During the first burglary the man wore Dolce and Gabbana shoes and in the second break-in, he wore purple and black Yeezy shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"online\">online<\/a>.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is sought after two burglaries at a Melbourne mosque this month. It&#8217;s believed a man broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-176397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}