{"id":521684,"date":"2026-03-06T03:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:55:14","slug":"police-arrest-group-of-teens-armed-with-weapons-at-busy-melbourne-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521684\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest group of teens armed with weapons at busy Melbourne festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police found a group of eight teens in the Southbank area 10 minutes later. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested near St Kilda Road shortly after.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Police searched the males and allegedly found an assortment of sharp weapons, including two machetes, a meat cleaver, a carving knife and flick knives.<\/p>\n<p>Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were taken into police custody and interviewed after the weapons were discovered and are set to be charged at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old boy was charged with possessing a prohibited and controlled weapon.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police found a group of eight teens in the Southbank area 10 minutes later. \ufeff They were arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-521684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521684","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=521684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}