{"id":554435,"date":"2026-03-21T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554435\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:05:16","slug":"teenager-charged-over-fire-bitten-by-police-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554435\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager charged over fire bitten by police dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage boy had to be taken to hospital after being bitten by a police dog as he was arrested over a fire.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of two 17-year olds charged after a fire at a shop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne&#039;s \">Melbourne&#8217;s<\/a> west.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to reports of a fire the empty shop on Wool Street at Tarneit about 2.30am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/dc8daa8d-80a5-4e6d-af8d-490405c9b085.jpeg\"   alt=\"Teenager arrested over fire bitten by police dog in Melbourne\"\/>Emergency services were called to reports of a fire the empty shop on Wool Street at Tarneit about 2.30am. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>Investigators were told multiple offenders fled in a Toyota Landcruiser, which was later found dumped at the intersection of Dohertys and Mount Cottrell roads in Mount Cottrell.<\/p>\n<p>After a search which involved the Dog Squad and Air Wing, two 17-year-old boys from Greater Dandenong were arrested about 5am.<\/p>\n<p>One of the boys was taken to hospital after being bitten by a police dog.<\/p>\n<p>Ambulance Victoria said he was treated for injuries and taken to Sunshine Hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>They have been charged with aggravated burglary, criminal damage by fire, conduct endangering life\/serious injury, theft of motor vehicle and possess articles to destroy.<\/p>\n<p>One teen will be directly presented to a children&#8217;s court and the other will have a bedside remand hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy had to be taken to hospital after being bitten by a police dog as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-554435","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\/554435","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=554435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}