{"id":266353,"date":"2025-11-06T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266353\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:02:11","slug":"man-charged-after-tradie-stabbed-while-performing-citizens-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266353\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after tradie stabbed while performing citizen&#8217;s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after a tradie was stabbed while trying to perform a citizen&#8217;s arrest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne&#039;s\">Melbourne&#8217;s<\/a> CBD this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A knife-wielding man was seen acting erratically as he ran through a car park on Lonsdale Street, near Melbourne Central, about 6am, police allege.<\/p>\n<p>Two tradies chased him down Elizabeth Street before tackling him to the ground near the intersection of Lonsdale Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d09a813d-d306-4aab-8482-6a1f7c180ace.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>The knife-wielding man was tackled on the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale Streets about 6am. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>They held the \ufeffman, a 32-year-old from Dallas, until police arrived three minutes later and took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>One of the tradies, a 41-year-old Maddingley man, was stabbed in the lower body, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to St Vincent&#8217;s Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The other tradie, a 35-year-old Sanctuary Lakes man, was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Dallas man has been charged with affray, recklessly causing injury, and using a controlled weapon without excuse.<\/p>\n<p>He has been remanded in custody to appear at Melbourne Magistrates&#8217; Court tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after a tradie was stabbed while trying to perform a citizen&#8217;s arrest in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-266353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266353","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=266353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}