{"id":379083,"date":"2025-12-29T22:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379083\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:15:10","slug":"police-search-for-alleged-carjacker-who-was-fought-off-by-bystanders-in-inner-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379083\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for alleged carjacker who was fought off by bystanders in inner Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have released footage of an attempted carjacking in Melbourne in which bystanders fought off the alleged offender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The incident happened in Richmond on August 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police said a man approached a woman in Swan Street near Richmond Railway Station about 4:50pm and tried to steal her Mercedes sedan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Bystanders intervened, including one person who appeared to be armed with a golf club, and forced the man to get out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Several people near a car.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/15b624e1feaaab82f3e9fc77830f5d20.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Bystanders, including one person carrying a golf club, forced the man to get out of the woman&#8217;s car. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The alleged offender fled on foot and got into a waiting Nissan Navara with the registration 1OL9CF, which was last seen travelling southbound on Cremorne Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The owner of the Mercedes was not hurt, but one of the bystanders who intervened appeared to sustain a facial injury.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man getting into a car.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8113c56e10d9070a93bccd63d9f86a39.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The alleged offender got into a Nissan Navara and left the scene. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have released CCTV footage and images of a man they would like to speak to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He is perceived to be of Pacific Islander\/Maori appearance, aged in his mid to late 20s and about 183 centimetres tall, with a solid build.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man running.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d7a91e3eec816d5ed52b523252b44b21.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police have released images of a man they want to speak to over the attempted carjacking. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was wearing a black puffer jacket, black track pants and white runners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have asked anyone who witnessed the incident or has information to contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released footage of an attempted carjacking in Melbourne in which bystanders fought off the alleged offender.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,204146,58042,48,48348,647,44,96750,1158,6858,2024,113760],"class_list":["post-379083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carjack","tag-carjacking","tag-crime","tag-investigate","tag-melbourne","tag-news","tag-nissan-navara","tag-police","tag-richmond","tag-victoria-police","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379083","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=379083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}